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Issue #1830

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CVE-2016-3108: Insecure temporary file used when generating certificate for Pulp Nodes

Added by rbarlow about 8 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
CLOSED - CURRENTRELEASE
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
-
Sprint/Milestone:
-
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Severity:
2. Medium
Version:
Platform Release:
2.8.3
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Triaged:
Yes
Groomed:
No
Sprint Candidate:
No
Tags:
Pulp 2
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Quarter:

Description

Security researcher Sander Bos contacted the Pulp team to notify us
that the pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script suffers from the same
exploit as was found in CVE-2016-3095, namely that the $TMP
directory that contains the Nodes private key was created in an
unsafe manner. The fix is to use mktemp -d to safely create the
directory.

Thanks to Sander Bos for taking the time to carefully inspect the
Pulp codebase and for writing a wonderfully detailed report
describing the issue and the fix for it.

Credit also goes to Jeremy Cline (Red Hat) for independently
reporting this issue.

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