CVE-2016-3112

high

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.

References

https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1834

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326242

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1146538

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1501

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/20/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-08

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00421