CVE-2019-3891

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-532

Description

It was discovered that a world-readable log file belonging to Candlepin component of Red Hat Satellite 6.4 leaked the credentials of the Candlepin database. A malicious user with local access to a Satellite host can use those credentials to modify the database and prevent Satellite from fetching package updates, thus preventing all Satellite hosts from accessing those updates.

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite 6: 6.4

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3891
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3891

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