CVE-2012-6685

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-06-06
CWE:
CWE-611
Bugzilla:
1178970: CVE-2012-6685 rubygem-nokogiri: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6685 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6 and Red Hat OpenStack 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having no security impact for rubygem-nokogiri as shipped with: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5, Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.3, Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.3.0, Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2.0; for ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6, Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.3, Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.3.0, Red Hat OpenStack 4.0, Red Hat OpenStack Foreman, Red Hat OpenStack 6, Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2.0; and for mingw-rubygem-nokogiri as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.3.0. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.

For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 6 ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5 rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri Will not fix
OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7 ruby193-rubygem-nokogiri Fix deferred

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