PT-2014-5466 · Red Hat · Katello

Eric Helms + 1 · Published 2014-11-03 · Updated 2017-09-02 · CVE-2014-3712

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Katello (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, through two vulnerable parameters:

• the mode parameter in the setup utils function in content search controller.rb,
• the action parameter in the respond function in api/api controller.rb in app/controllers/katello/. These parameters are passed to the to sym method.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3712

Affected Products

Katello

References · 5

• 🔥 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/419 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155708 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3712 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/70707 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97724 · Note