CVE-2012-6137
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm tool in Red Hat subscription-manager does not verify the Red Hat Network Classic server's X.509 certificate when migrating to a Certificate-based Red Hat Network, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as user credentials.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 5 | affected | |
| rhel | 5.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 5.9.z | affected | |
References
- http://osvdb.org/93058
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0788.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53330
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59674
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028520
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885130
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84020
- http://osvdb.org/93058
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0788.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53330
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59674
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028520
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885130
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84020
CWEs
CWE-255
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.