CVE-2012-5603

proxies_controller.rb in Katello in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to read consumer certificates or change arbitrary users' settings via unspecified vectors related to the "consumer UUID" of a system.

Published: 2013-01-04 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5603 is rated Moderate Risk (43.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.04%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5603

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.25% 1.04% +0.79%
2 2025-06-05 0.24% 0.25% +0.01%
3 2023-03-07 0.24%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5603

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-5603

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-5603

vendor priority summary link
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5603

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5603

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat cloudforms <= 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5603

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