PT-2018-7166 · Red Hat · Subscription-Manager

Published 2018-07-27 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-2663

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: subscription-manager versions prior to 1.19.4

Description: The issue allows an unprivileged local attacker to access private information or launch a privilege escalation attack by exploiting the DBus interface. Specifically, the com.redhat.RHSM1.Facts.GetFacts and com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.Set methods are vulnerable.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.19.4, update to version 1.19.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the DBus interface until a patch is applied.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-270

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-2663

Affected Products

Subscription-Manager

References · 5

• https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/commit/2aa48ef65 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2663 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2663 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-2663 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/97015 · Note