A flaw was found in the GNOME Control Center in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 versions prior to 8.2, where it improperly uses Red Hat Customer Portal credentials when a user registers a system through the GNOME Settings User Interface. This flaw allows a local attacker to discover the Red Hat Customer Portal password. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

When registering a system through GNOME Control Center, Red Hat Customer Portal password gets sent to the system log and it is passed as an argument to gnome-settings-daemon helper, making it readable by an unprivileged local user.