PT-2013-1805 · Red Hat · Katello

Kurt Seifried · Published 2013-03-01 · Updated 2013-03-01 · CVE-2012-5561

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Katello version 1.1

Description The issue concerns the script/katello-generate-passphrase in Katello, which uses world-readable permissions for the /etc/katello/secure/passphrase file. This allows local users to obtain the passphrase by reading the file.

Recommendations For Katello version 1.1, consider changing the permissions of the /etc/katello/secure/passphrase file to restrict access and prevent local users from reading the passphrase.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5561

Affected Products

Katello

References · 5

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0544.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0547.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5561 · Security Note
• https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/1349 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879094 · Note