CVE-2012-3359

low
Published 2014-03-31 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.7
VIR risk
3.7

Description

Luci in Red Hat Conga stores the user's username and password in a Base64 encoded string in the __ac session cookie, which allows attackers to gain privileges by accessing this cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2013-7347 for the incorrect enforcement of a user timeout.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0128.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel5affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhatconga

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.