discovery-debug in Foreman before 6.2 when the ssh service has been enabled on discovered nodes displays the root password in plaintext in the system journal when used to log in, which allows local users with access to the system journal to obtain the root password by reading the system journal, or by clicking Logs on the console.
References
Link Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349136 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
History

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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-07-14T20:00:00

Updated: 2018-02-22T10:57:01

Reserved: 2016-05-24T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-4996

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-17T13:18:06.170

Modified: 2023-02-13T04:50:09.933


Link: CVE-2016-4996

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE