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CVE-2013-2113

43
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2113 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Foreman before version 1.2.0-RC2, affecting products like Red Hat Foreman and OpenStack. Authenticated users with permissions to create or edit other users could exploit this by modifying the admin flag or assigning arbitrary roles. With a CVSS score of 6.0 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100, this medium-complexity attack could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for this mass assignment vulnerability, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:*:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Foreman (Red Hat OpenStack/Satellite) users/create Mass Assignment · Jun 6, 2013
ExploitDB: EDB-27776 · Aug 22, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2093 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 1,425 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-foreman-0:1.1.10009-3.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-foreman-proxy-0:1.1.10001-4.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-openstack-foreman-installer-0:0.0.18-1.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-ancestry-0:1.3.0-5.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-fog-0:1.10.1-11.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-mysql-0:2.8.1-4.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-safemode-0:1.2.0-9.el6ost
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2113Moderate

Foreman: app/controllers/users_controller.rb arbitrary admin user creation due to mass assignment

Jun 7, 2013

References

projects.theforeman.org / issues/2630
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0995.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
groups.google.com / forum