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CVE-2011-4083

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 1.7-9 and 2.x before 2.2-17 includes (1) Certificate-based Red Hat Network private entitlement keys and the (2) private key for the entitlement in an archive of debugging information, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the archive.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2011-4083 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 1 product from redhat organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2014-02-17T16:55:07.273

Last Modified

2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-310

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-3	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-6	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-7	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-8	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-9	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-10	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-11	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-14	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-15	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	2.2-16	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	≤ 1.7-6	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	1.6	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	1.7	Yes
Application	redhat	sos	1.7-8	Yes

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1536.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0153.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1536.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0153.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

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