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CVE-2012-6149

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in systems/sdc/notes.jsp in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) subject or (2) content values of a note in a system.addNote XML-RPC call.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2012-6149 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from redhat, from redhat, 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

2014-02-14T15:55:04.953

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 3.5 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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

Exploitability Score

6.8

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	redhat	satellite	5.6	Yes
Application	redhat	satellite_5_managed_db	5.6	Yes
Application	redhat	spacewalk-java	2.0.2-57	Yes

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0148.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/56952 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882000 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=18c70164285cae0660fa3ac55c6656bb19b3b13f Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=1d0f4b4a78ea03d9f2d05fbd52236b1f2ab68e85 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140222-1.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0148.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/56952 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882000 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=18c70164285cae0660fa3ac55c6656bb19b3b13f Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=1d0f4b4a78ea03d9f2d05fbd52236b1f2ab68e85 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140222-1.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

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