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CVE-2012-5509

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5509 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in the aeolus-configserver-setup component of the Aeolus Configuration Server, specifically affecting Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine before version 1.1.2. The vulnerability stems from world-readable permissions on a temporary file in /tmp, allowing local users to read sensitive credentials. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), this low-severity flaw requires local access and has a low attack complexity, primarily impacting confidentiality by exposing credentials. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not widely targeted.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_cloud_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_cloud_engine:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: aeolus-conductor-0:0.13.26-1.el6cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: aeolus-configserver-0:0.4.12-3.el6cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: imagefactory-0:1.0.3-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: oz-0:0.8.0-8.el6cf
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5509Low

aeolus-configserver: aeolus-configserver-setup /tmp file conductor credentials leak

Feb 21, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0545.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit