The Subscription Manager package (aka subscription-manager) before 1.17.7-1 for Candlepin uses weak permissions (755) for…

Description

The Subscription Manager package (aka subscription-manager) before 1.17.7-1 for Candlepin uses weak permissions (755) for subscription-manager cache directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directories.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 63% 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: Low 3.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1340525 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1038083 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20161026 CVE-2016-4455: subscription-manager: incorrect permisions in /var/lib/rhsm/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 93926 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:2592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/commit/9dec31 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/blob/subscription-manager-1.17.7-1/subscription-manager.spec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0698 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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 6 Aug 2024, 00:32 UTC.