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CVE-2016-3704
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-255
Description
Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 24
- [UNKNOWN] pulp: through 2.8.4
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264
- https://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/release-notes/2.8.x.html#pulp-2-8-5
- https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25
- https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YM2LCC7QBRCK4LTN5EZT5OHTVAR3MYTY/
- https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264
- https://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/release-notes/2.8.x.html#pulp-2-8-5
- https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25
- https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105
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