It was found that subscription-manager's DBus interface before 1.19.4 let unprivileged user access the com.redhat.RHSM1.Facts.GetFacts and com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.Set methods. An unprivileged local attacker could use these methods to gain access to private information, or launch a privilege escalation attack.

This is a primarily maintenance update. Please see the attached bugs for more specific details on what has improved as far as stability is concerned.

There is also a larger new feature which is being released in concert with work being done in Katello / Foreman. Subscription-manager has a concept of a package-profile. This contains information on all installed rpm packages for the system on which it is running.

We have expanded this reporting capability to include information on enabled and installed modules from modulemd as well as to report on which repositories this system has enabled presently.

This information is combined into a group of reports and submitted to the same endpoint on Katello / Foreman. 

The new request is a PUT to /consumers/{consumer_uuid}/profiles. This is done only when the string 'combined_reporting' in the managerCapabilities key of the response to a GET /status.

The old just rpm profile reporting is still done as a PUT to /consumers/{consumer_uuid}/packages. This is at this point only done if the server side does not support the new capability.

More will likely be added in the future to further expand on this capability of reporting.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This is a primarily maintenance update. Please see the attached bugs for more specific details on what has improved as far as stability is concerned.

There is also a larger new feature which is being released in concert with work being done in Katello / Foreman. Subscription-manager has a concept of a package-profile. This contains information on all installed rpm packages for the system on which it is running.

We have expanded this reporting capability to include information on enabled and installed modules from modulemd as well as to report on which repositories this system has enabled presently.

This information is combined into a group of reports and submitted to the same endpoint on Katello / Foreman. 

The new request is a PUT to /consumers/{consumer_uuid}/profiles. This is done only when the string 'combined_reporting' in the managerCapabilities key of the response to a GET /status.

The old just rpm profile reporting is still done as a PUT to /consumers/{consumer_uuid}/packages. This is at this point only done if the server side does not support the new capability.

More will likely be added in the future to further expand on this capability of reporting.

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Numerous bug fixes. Please see the rpm changelog for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
120680	Fedora 28 : subscription-manager (2018-a675aa39fc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120218	Fedora 29 : subscription-manager (2018-075821dc8f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
118960	Fedora 27 : subscription-manager (2018-91ba32a0ff)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2017-2663

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Tenable Plugins

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