CVE-2016-3111: Pulpproject Pulp

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pulp.spec in the installation process for Pulp 2.8.3 generates the RSA key pairs used to validate messages between the pulp server and pulp consumers in a directory that is world-readable before later modifying the permissions, which might allow local users to read the generated RSA keys via reading the key files while the installation process is running.

Affected products

• Pulpproject Pulp: up to and including 2.8.2-1

Published 2017-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.