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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.7

CVE-2023-4886 json

Foreman: world readable file containing secrets

published 2023-10-03 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-54725

cvss
6.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A sensitive information exposure vulnerability was found in foreman. Contents of tomcat's server.xml file, which contain passwords to candlepin's keystore and truststore, were found to be world readable.

Patch / fix

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 0:3.5.1.24-1.el8sat
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 0:3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, 1:3.7.0.5-1.el8sat
  • foreman satellite utils 6.14, satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat
  • satellite satellite utils 6.14, satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 6.14.1-1.el8sat
  • foreman-cli satellite utils 6.14, satellite 6.14 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat
  • foreman-ec2 satellite 6.14 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat
  • createrepo_c satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 1.0.2-2.el8pc
  • foreman-ovirt satellite 6.14 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat
  • foreman-redis satellite 6.14 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat
  • rubygem-rails satellite 6.14 6.1.7.4-1.el8sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:7851RHSA-2024:1061

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-4886 updated cvss 6.7

foreman: World readable file containing secrets

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 foreman 3.5.1.24-1.el8sat, foreman-cli 3.5.1.24-1.el8sat, foreman-ec2 3.5.1.24-1.el8sat, foreman-ovirt 3.5.1.24-1.el8sat, foreman-vmware 3.5.1.24-1.el8sat, foreman-libvirt 3.5.1.24-1.el8sat, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:1061
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 foreman 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, foreman-cli 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, foreman-ec2 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, foreman-ovirt 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, foreman-redis 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, foreman-vmware 3.7.0.10-1.el8sat, +9 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:7851
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 mosquitto 2.0.17-1.el8sat, satellite 6.13.7-1.el8sat, createrepo_c 1.0.2-2.el8pc, satellite-cli 6.13.7-1.el8sat, satellite-clone 3.5.0-1.el8sat, createrepo_c-libs 1.0.2-2.el8pc, +14 more Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 satellite 6.14.1-1.el8sat, createrepo_c 1.0.2-2.el8pc, satellite-cli 6.14.1-1.el8sat, pulpcore-selinux 2.0.0-1.el8pc, rubygem-rails 6.1.7.4-1.el8sat, createrepo_c-libs 1.0.2-2.el8pc, +32 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.