CVE-2016-4455: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Subscription-Manager: up to and including 1.17.6-1

Published 2017-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.