Foreman up to 6.1 SSH Service Password information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Foreman up to 6.1 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component SSH Service. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure (Password). This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-4996. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Foreman up to 6.1 (Service Management Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component SSH Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

discovery-debug in Foreman before 6.2 when the ssh service has been enabled on discovered nodes displays the root password in plaintext in the system journal when used to log in, which allows local users with access to the system journal to obtain the root password by reading the system journal, or by clicking Logs on the console.

The bug was discovered 06/22/2016. The weakness was disclosed 07/17/2017 as Bug 1349136 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-4996 since 05/24/2016. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 390 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 107053 (RHEL 7 : Satellite Server (RHSA-2018:0336)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 236693 (Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.3 (RHSA-2018:0336)).

Upgrading to version 6.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 8 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (107053). The entries VDB-65919, VDB-87556, VDB-90883 and VDB-90885 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 3.3
VulDB Temp Score: 3.2
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Exploitinginfo

Name: Password
Class: Information disclosure / Password
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 107053
Nessus Name: RHEL 7 : Satellite Server (RHSA-2018:0336)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Foreman 6.2

Timelineinfo

05/24/2016 🔍
06/22/2016 +29 days 🔍
07/17/2017 +390 days 🔍
07/17/2017 +0 days 🔍
07/17/2017 +0 days 🔍
02/21/2018 +219 days 🔍
02/28/2018 +7 days 🔍
10/26/2019 +605 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 1349136
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2016-4996 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-4996
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-103562
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/17/2017 20:09
Updated: 10/26/2019 07:12
Changes: 07/17/2017 20:09 (74), 10/26/2019 07:12 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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