CVE-2012-6149

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in systems/sdc/notes.jsp in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) subject or (2) content values of a note in a system.addNote XML-RPC call.

Published: 2014-02-14 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-6149 is rated Exploit Available (55.6/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.57%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.32% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-6149

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-6149

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% 1.57% +1.32%
2 2025-03-30 0.20% 0.25% +0.05%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.20% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-6149

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-6149

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-6149

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6149

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-6149

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat satellite 5.6 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat satellite_5_managed_db 5.6 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite_5_managed_db:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat spacewalk-java 2.0.2-57 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spacewalk-java:2.0.2-57:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-6149

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