There is a flaw in convert2rhel. convert2rhel passes the Red Hat account password to subscription-manager via the command line, which could allow unauthorized users locally on the machine to view the password via the process command line via e.g. htop or ps. The specific impact varies upon the privileges of the Red Hat account in question, but it could affect the integrity, availability, and/or data confidentiality of other systems that are administered by that account. This occurs regardless of how the password is supplied to convert2rhel.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1599 advisory.

    The convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs operating system conversion.
    During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution     with their Red Hat Enteprise Linux versions.

    Security fix:

    * convert2rhel: Red Hat account password passed via command line by code (CVE-2022-0852)

    Enhancement:

    * Enable the conversion of untested 8.6 to 8.10 on release day

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1617 advisory.

    The convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs operating system conversion.
    During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution     with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux version.

    Security fix:

    * convert2rhel: Red Hat account password passed via command line by code (CVE-2022-0852)

    Enhancement:

    * Enable the conversion of untested 8.6 to 8.10 on release day

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1618 advisory.

    The convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs operating system conversion.
    During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution     with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux version.

    Security fix:

    * convert2rhel: Red Hat account password passed via command line by code     (CVE-2022-0852)

    Enhancement:

    * Enable the conversion of untested 8.6 to 8.10 on release day

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194264	RHEL 8 : convert2rhel (RHSA-2022:1599)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
194263	RHEL 7 : convert2rhel (RHSA-2022:1617)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
194186	RHEL 6 : convert2rhel (RHSA-2022:1618)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

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