CVE-2020-10710

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-522

Description

A flaw was found where the Plaintext Candlepin password is disclosed while updating Red Hat Satellite through the satellite-installer. This flaw allows an attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root, to retrieve the Candlepin plaintext password.

Affected products

foreman: before 1.24.1.22 — fixed in 1.24.1.22

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: foreman 1.24.1.22. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816747
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816747

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