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CVE-2012-4574medium5.5

Pulp: red hat cloudforms: pulp in red hat cloudforms: information disclosure via world-readable configuration file

Impact

A flaw was found in Pulp, as used in Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows a local user to read the administrative password due to world-readable permissions on the pulp.conf configuration file. This information disclosure could enable unauthorized access to sensitive system credentials.

Source excerpt · redhat

Affected packages

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Affected products

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Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

1 range
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affected

unaffected

0:0.7.8.1-1.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:0.66.1-2.el6cf → before *

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unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:0.0.150-1.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.12-22.el6cf → before *

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unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.2-1.el6cf → before *

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unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.8-1.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.8-12.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.5-2.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.9-12.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.1-2.el6cf → before *

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unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

1 range
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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.14-1.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:2.1.5-4.el6cf → before *

rpm versions

unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms for RHEL 6

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affected

unaffected

0:0.0.11-3.el6cf → before *

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unknown

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Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms Tools for RHEL 5

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affected

unaffected

0:0.66.1-2.el5 → before *

rpm versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

Red Hat · redhat

CloudForms Tools for RHEL 5

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affected

unaffected

0:1.1.2-1.el5 → before *

rpm versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:cloudforms_systemengine:1::el6cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el5cpe:/a:cloudforms_tools:1::el6

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RHUI for RHEL 6

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unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:2::el6

Original source description

A flaw was found in Pulp, as used in Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows a local user to read the administrative password due to world-readable permissions on the pulp.conf configuration file. This information disclosure could enable unauthorized access to sensitive system credentials.

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CVE-2012-4574

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-538 ↗

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

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2026-10-30
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2024-08-06

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References

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rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1543.html
vendor-advisoryredhat · CVE
access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013:0571
vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1543
vendor-advisoryredhat
osvdb.org/88138
vdb-entryredhat · CVE
secunia.com/advisories/51472
third-party-advisoryredhat · CVE
www.securityfocus.com/bid/56819
vdb-entryredhat · CVE
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access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4574
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bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
Source referenceredhat · CVE
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80548
vdb-entryredhat · CVE