CVE-2011-0718

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2011-02-23
Bugzilla:
672163: CVE-2011-0718 Satellite, Spacewalk: Prone to brute force password guessing attacks

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite Server 5.4 does not use a time delay after a failed login attempt, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct brute force password guessing attacks.

Find out more about CVE-2011-0718 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite 5.4 (RHEL v.5) (spacewalk-backend) RHSA-2011:0300 2011-02-23

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 5.4 Server Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Thomas Biege of the SuSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

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