CVE-2012-3503

Summary

CVECVE-2012-3503
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-08-25 10:29:00 UTC
Updated2013-03-22 03:11:00 UTC
DescriptionThe installation script in Katello 1.0 and earlier does not properly generate the Application.config.secret_token value, which causes each default installation to have the same secret token, and allows remote attackers to authenticate to the CloudForms System Engine web interface as an arbitrary user by creating a cookie using the default secret_token.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Katello Katello All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
850745 - secret_token is not generated properly (CVE-2012-3503) by lzap · Pull Request #499 · Katello/katello · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Security Advisory SA50344 - Red Hat update for katello - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Katello CVE-2012-3503 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Merge pull request #499 from lzap/secret_token · Katello/katello@7c256fe · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit, Patch
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 998017 Rubygems (Rubygems) Security Update for katello (GHSA-5xv2-q475-rwrh)
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