CVE-2016-3112

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

client/consumer/cli.py in Pulp before 2.8.3 writes consumer private keys to etc/pki/pulp/consumer/consumer-cert.pem as world-readable, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the consumer private keys and escalate privileges by reading /etc/pki/pulp/consumer/consumer-cert, and authenticating as a consumer user.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] pulp: through 2.8.2-1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/20/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1501
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1146538
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326242
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1834
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/20/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1501
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1146538
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326242
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1834

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