RHEL 5 / 6 : Red Hat Network Proxy spacewalk-backend (RHSA-2012:0102)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64025

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat Network Proxy spacewalk-backend.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0102 advisory.

Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy provides a mechanism for caching content, such as package updates from Red Hat or custom content created for an organization on an internal, centrally-located server.

If a user submitted a system registration XML-RPC call to an RHN Proxy server (for example, by running rhnreg_ks) and that call failed, their RHN user password was included in plain text in the error messages both stored in the server log and mailed to the server administrator. With this update, user passwords are excluded from these error messages to avoid the exposure of authentication credentials. (CVE-2012-0059)

Users of Red Hat Network Proxy are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Proxy must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat Network Proxy spacewalk-backend package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0102.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64025

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0102.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0059

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spacewalk-backend-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0059

BID: 51569

RHSA: 2012:0102

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