PT-2015-6112 · Foreman · Foreman

Dominic Cleal + 1 · Published 2015-08-14 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2015-3235

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Foreman versions prior to 1.9.0

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users with the edit users permission to edit administrator users and change their passwords. An attacker with the edit users permission could use this flaw to access an admin user account, leading to an escalation of privileges.

Recommendations For Foreman versions prior to 1.9.0, update to version 1.9.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the edit users permission to prevent unauthorized users from editing administrator accounts.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3235

RHSA-2015:1591

RHSA-2015:1592

Affected Products

Foreman

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3235 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1592 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1591 · Vendor Advisory
• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/10829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232366 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/43488 · Telegram Post
• http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.9/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.9 · Note