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RHSA-2012:0102

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2012-02-06 18:16 - Updated: 2026-11-07 05:05

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Network Proxy spacewalk-backend security and bug fix update

Severity

Low

Notes

Topic: Updated spacewalk-backend packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Network Proxy 5.4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Details: Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy provides a mechanism for caching content, such as package updates from Red Hat or custom content created for an organization on an internal, centrally-located server. If a user submitted a system registration XML-RPC call to an RHN Proxy server (for example, by running "rhnreg_ks") and that call failed, their RHN user password was included in plain text in the error messages both stored in the server log and mailed to the server administrator. With this update, user passwords are excluded from these error messages to avoid the exposure of authentication credentials. (CVE-2012-0059) Users of Red Hat Network Proxy are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Proxy must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details.

Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

CVE-2012-0059

A flaw was found in Spacewalk-backend. This information disclosure vulnerability occurs when a system registration XML-RPC call fails, causing cleartext user passwords to be included in error messages. Remote administrators can exploit this by reading server logs and emails, leading to the unauthorized disclosure of user passwords.

4.9 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Affected products

Fixed 6 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: 5Server-RHNProxy54:spacewalk-backend-0:1.2.13-66.el5sat.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: 5Server-RHNProxy54:spacewalk-backend-0:1.2.13-66.el5sat.src	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: 5Server-RHNProxy54:spacewalk-backend-libs-0:1.2.13-66.el5sat.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: 6Server-RHNProxy:spacewalk-backend-0:1.2.13-66.el6sat.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: 6Server-RHNProxy:spacewalk-backend-0:1.2.13-66.el6sat.src	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: 6Server-RHNProxy:spacewalk-backend-libs-0:1.2.13-66.el6sat.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround

Threats

Impact Moderate

References

9 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0102	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classi…	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782819	external
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0059	self
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0059	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0059	external
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0101.html	external
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0102.html	external

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CVE-2012-0059 (GCVE-0-2012-0059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-02-05 18:00 – Updated: 2026-11-05 02:56

Title

Spacewalk-backend: spacewalk-backend: information disclosure via cleartext passwords in error messages

Summary

Severity

4.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1200 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0101.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0102.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0101	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0102	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0059	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Network Proxy v 5.4	Unaffected: 0:1.2.13-66.el5sat , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:network_proxy:5.4::el5 cpe:/a:redhat:network_proxy:5.4::el6
Red Hat	Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4	Unaffected: 0:1.2.13-66.el5sat , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:network_satellite:5.4::el5 cpe:/a:redhat:network_satellite:5.4::el6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7

Date Public

2014-02-05 18:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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