VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3704

high
Published 2017-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
fedora fedora24affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pulpprojectpulp{"endIncluding":"2.8.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.