CVE-2013-2113

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-06-07
CWE:
CWE-285
Bugzilla:
966804: CVE-2013-2113 Foreman: app/controllers/users_controller.rb arbitrary admin user creation due to mass assignment

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The create method in app/controllers/users_controller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to create or edit other users to gain privileges by (1) changing the admin flag or (2) assigning an arbitrary role.

Find out more about CVE-2013-2113 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 RHSA-2013:0995 2013-06-27

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 6 foreman Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Ramon de C Valle of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

Last Modified

CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation

Close

Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.