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CVE-2012-6137

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6137 describes a vulnerability in the rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm tool within Red Hat subscription-manager, affecting various Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. The tool fails to validate the X.509 certificate of the Red Hat Network Classic server during migration, enabling remote man-in-the-middle (MitM) attackers to intercept sensitive user credentials. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial information disclosure, but no impact on integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:server:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:client:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.9.zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:5.9.z:*:server:*:*:*:*:*
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0095 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: subscription-manager-0:1.0.24.1-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: subscription-manager-0:1.1.23.1-1.el6_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6137Moderate

subscription-manager: rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm missing SSL certificate verification

May 6, 2013

References

osvdb.org / 93058
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0788.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/53330
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/84020
securityfocus.com / bid/59674
securitytracker.com / id/1028520