{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-05-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "subscription-manager: sensitive world readable files in /var/lib/rhsm/",
    "id" : "1340525",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1340525"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.7",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-732",
  "details" : [ "The Subscription Manager package (aka subscription-manager) before 1.17.7-1 for Candlepin uses weak permissions (755) for subscription-manager cache directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directories.", "It was found that subscription-manager set weak permissions on files in /var/lib/rhsm/, causing an information disclosure. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to access sensitive data that could potentially be used in a social engineering attack." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Robert Scheck for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-03-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0698",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "python-rhsm-0:1.18.6-1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-03-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0698",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "subscription-manager-0:1.18.10-1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-03-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0698",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "subscription-manager-migration-data-0:2.0.34-1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:2592",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "python-rhsm-0:1.17.9-1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:2592",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "subscription-manager-0:1.17.15-1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:2592",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "subscription-manager-migration-data-0:2.0.31-1.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "subscription-manager",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4455\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4455" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-4455",
  "csaw" : false
}