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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2016-3106 json

Pulp before 2.8.3 creates a temporary directory during CA key generation in an insecure manner.

published 2017-04-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-4160

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pulp before 2.8.3 creates a temporary directory during CA key generation in an insecure manner.

Patch / fix

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-2016-3106 updated cvss 2.6

pulp: Insecure creation of temporary directory when generating new CA key

  • Red Hat Satellite 6 pulp, pulp-server, pulp-selinux, pulp-maintenance, pulp-nodes-child, pulp-admin-client, +9 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

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.