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CVE-2012-6117

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6117 describes a vulnerability in the Aeolus Configuration Server, specifically in Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine before version 1.1.2. This flaw allows local users to read plaintext passwords from the /var/log/aeolus-configserver/configserver.log file due to world-readable permissions. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 71st 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
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: oz-0:0.8.0-8.el6cf
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6117Low

Configserver: Passwords from application blueprint stored plaintext in configserver.log

Nov 1, 2012

References

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