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CVE-2023-4886

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-4886 is a sensitive information exposure vulnerability affecting Red Hat Foreman, Red Hat Satellite, and TheForeman products. The vulnerability allows for the world-readable server.xml file of Tomcat to expose passwords for Candlepin's keystore and truststore. With a CVSS score of 4.4 (Medium), this local vulnerability requires high privileges for an attacker to access the sensitive information, potentially leading to unauthorized access to other systems. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed in: foreman-0:3.5.1.24-1.el8sat
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8Fixed in: foreman-0:3.7.0.10-1.el8sat
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8Fixed in: foreman-installer-1:3.7.0.5-1.el8sat
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-4886Moderate

foreman: World readable file containing secrets

Oct 3, 2023

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:7851
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:1061
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-4886
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory