CVE-2019-3891: Red Hat Satellite

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was discovered that a world-readable log file belonging to Candlepin component of Red Hat Satellite 6.4 leaked the credentials of the Candlepin database. A malicious user with local access to a Satellite host can use those credentials to modify the database and prevent Satellite from fetching package updates, thus preventing all Satellite hosts from accessing those updates.

Affected products

• Red Hat Satellite: version 6.4 only

Published 2019-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.