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CVE-2012-3538

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3538 describes a vulnerability in Red Hat CloudForms before version 1.1, where the Pulp component logs administrative passwords in a world-readable file, production.log. This allows local users to access these sensitive credentials. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating an adjacent attack vector, low complexity, and a partial impact on confidentiality. 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
<= 1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 94 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 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 (15)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: candlepin-0:0.7.8.1-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: gofer-0:0.66.1-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: grinder-0:0.0.150-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-0:1.1.12-22.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-agent-0:1.1.2-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-certs-tools-0:1.1.8-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-cli-0:1.1.8-12.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-cli-tests-0:1.1.5-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-configure-0:1.1.9-12.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: katello-selinux-0:1.1.1-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: pulp-0:1.1.14-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: quartz-0:2.1.5-4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-apipie-rails-0:0.0.11-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Tools for RHEL 5Fixed in: gofer-0:0.66.1-2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Tools for RHEL 5Fixed in: katello-agent-0:1.1.2-1.el5
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-3538Moderate

katello: pulp admin password logged in plaintext in world-readable katello/production.log

Dec 4, 2012

References

osvdb.org / 88139
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1543.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51472
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80547
securityfocus.com / bid/56819