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CVE-2012-5604

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5604 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in the ldap_fluff Ruby gem, specifically impacting Red Hat CloudForms 1.1 when configured for Active Directory authentication. Attackers can exploit this flaw remotely through unspecified vectors to bypass authentication. While the CVSS score is moderate at 4.3, indicating a low impact on integrity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0121 is in the 31st 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)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ldap_fluffFixed in: 0.4.0
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-9whh-582r-589hmedium

ldap_fluff authentication bypass

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2012-5604Important

rubygem-ldap_fluff: CloudForms authentication bypass when handling anonymous LDAP bind

Dec 4, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0544.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi