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CVE-2012-6116

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6116 describes a weak permissions vulnerability in Katello's katello-configure component, specifically affecting versions before 1.3.3.pulpv2. The vulnerability allows local users to modify the Candlepin CA certificate due to insecure permissions (666) on the Candlepin bootstrap RPM. This is a low-severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 2.1, indicating that an attacker would need local access to the system (AV:L) and the attack complexity is low (AC:L). The potential impact is limited to modifying the certificate (I:P) without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is there any public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community attention, with no social media discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.3.2_pulpv2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello-configure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
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
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 2nd 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 (17)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: candlepin-0:0.7.19-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-0:1.1.12.2-5.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-cli-0:1.1.8-14.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-configure-0:1.1.9-13.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-selinux-0:1.1.1-5.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: candlepin-0:0.7.24-1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-0:1.2.1.1-1h.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-configure-0:1.2.3.1-4h.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-12.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-activemodel-0:3.0.10-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-json-0:1.7.3-2.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.5.0-0.9.beta4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-rack-1:1.3.0-4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-rails_warden-0:0.5.5-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-rdoc-0:3.8-6.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: thumbslug-0:0.0.28.1-1.el6_4
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6116Moderate

Candlepin: bootstrap RPM deploys CA certificate file with mode 666

Feb 21, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0547.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html
secunia.com / advisories/52774
github.com / jsomara/katello/commit/65f1e42b7bda0f3410931c50598540d944d8bf0d
github.com / Katello/katello/commits/master/katello-configure/katello-configure.spec