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CVE-2012-6149

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6149 describes multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6. Specifically, an authenticated remote attacker can inject arbitrary web script or HTML into the 'subject' or 'content' fields of a system note via an XML-RPC call. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring authentication, with the primary impact being information disclosure (XSS) rather than data integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite_5_managed_db:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2-57CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spacewalk-java:2.0.2-57:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.5LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0157 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 1,636 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: satellite-branding-0:5.6.0.23-1.el5sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.0.2-58.el6sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: spacewalk-web-0:2.0.3-19.el5sat
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
susevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6149Moderate

(spacewalk-java): XSS in system.addNote XML-RPC call due improper sanitization of note's subject and content

Feb 10, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0148.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/56952
Third Party Advisory
git.fedorahosted.org / cgit/spacewalk.git/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
git.fedorahosted.org / cgit/spacewalk.git/commit
ExploitPatch
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140222-1.html
Vendor Advisory