CVE-2012-5562

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-02-10
Bugzilla:
879369: CVE-2012-5562 rhn-proxy: may transmit credentials over clear-text

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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Find out more about CVE-2012-5562 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue was corrected in RHN Satellite 5.6; earlier versions of RHN Satellite are affected. As RHN Satellite is now in the Production 2 phase of its support and maintenance life cycle, there are currently no plans to address this in future updates for RHN Satellite 5.5 and earlier. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/satellite.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.8
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 (RHEL v.6) RHEA-2013:1392 2013-10-01
Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 (RHEL v.5) RHEA-2013:1392 2013-10-01

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.5 Server Will not fix

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