yum check-update --security on RHEL 7 returns exlcuded packages

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I have only noticed this on RHEL 7. I am not sure if something changed or what. I used to run the command: yum check-update --security
This would tell me if there were any security updates available. Now on RHEL 7 it returns a giant list of excluded packages before it returns any available security updates. I don't understand this behavior and I haven't seen it on RHEL 5 or 6. My debug level is only at 2...

I have included a very brief output:

--> fence-agents-hpblade-4.0.11-47.el7_3.3.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> fence-agents-ilo-ssh-4.0.11-47.el7.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> cronie-noanacron-1.4.11-13.el7.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> gnome-session-xsession-3.8.4-11.el7.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.873-32.el7.i686 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> seavgabios-bin-1.9.1-5.el7_3.1.noarch from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> 2:texlive-pdftex-bin-svn27321.0-38.20130427_r30134.el7.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> subscription-manager-migration-1.10.14-9.el7_0.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> colord-libs-1.0.4-3.el7.i686 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
--> device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-85.el7_2.6.x86_64 from rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms excluded (updateinfo)
36 package(s) needed for security, out of 89 available

bind-libs.x86_64 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.3 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
bind-libs-lite.x86_64 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.3 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
bind-license.noarch 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.3 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
bind-utils.x86_64 32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.3 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
firefox.x86_64 52.2.0-1.el7_3 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
ghostscript.x86_64 9.07-20.el7_3.5 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
glibc.x86_64 2.17-157.el7_3.4 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms
glibc-common.x86_64 2.17-157.el7_3.4 rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms

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At first look it seems that those packages are listed under "exclude" in /etc/yum.conf file.

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