CVE-2010-1171

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3 and 5.4 exposes a dangerous, obsolete XML-RPC API, which allows remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (failed yum operations) via vectors related to configuration and package group (comps.xml) files for channels.

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite 6: 5.3, 5.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/44150
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0434.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47316
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025316
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0967
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584118
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66690
http://secunia.com/advisories/44150
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0434.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47316
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025316
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0967

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