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CVE-2012-5561

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5561 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in Katello 1.1, where the script /script/katello-generate-passphrase sets world-readable permissions for the /etc/katello/secure/passphrase file. This allows any local user to read the file and obtain the stored passphrase. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating it requires local access and has a low impact, primarily compromising confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 21st 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 (26)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: candlepin-0:0.7.19-3.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-0:1.1.12.2-5.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-cli-0:1.1.8-14.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-configure-0:1.1.9-13.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-selinux-0:1.1.1-5.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: apache-commons-codec-0:1.7-2.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: apache-mime4j-0:0.6-4_redhat_1.ep6.el6.1
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: candlepin-0:0.7.23-1.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: elasticsearch-0:0.19.9-5.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-0:1.2.1-15h.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-certs-tools-0:1.2.1-1h.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-cli-0:1.2.1-12h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-configure-0:1.2.3-3h.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-selinux-0:1.2.1-2h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: lucene3-0:3.6.1-10h.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: quartz-0:2.1.5-4.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-apipie-rails-0:0.0.12-2.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-rack-1:1.3.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.0.4-6.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: sigar-0:1.6.5-0.12.git58097d9h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: snappy-java-0:1.0.4-2.el6_3
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: thumbslug-0:0.0.28-1.el6_3
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5561Moderate

Katello: /etc/katello/secure/passphrase is world readable

Jan 3, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0544.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0547.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / Katello/katello/pull/1349