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CVE-2016-3704
Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.
High7.5EPSS 2.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- https://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/release-notes/2.8.x.html#pulp-2-8-5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0336 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-4373f7d32a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .