CVE-2012-5518

Description

From CVE.org

vdsm: certificate generation upon node creation allowing vdsm to start and serve requests from anyone who has a matching key (and certificate)

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of vdsm22 package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue did not affect the versions of vdsm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This issue did not affect the hypervisor disk images as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 5 and 6.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score6.84.3N/A
Attack VectorAdjacent NetworkNetworkN/A
Access ComplexityHighMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactCompleteNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactCompletePartialN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteNoneN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat).

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