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CVE-2012-1145

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

spacewalk-backend in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 does not properly authorize or authenticate uploads to the NULL organization when mod_wsgi is used, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (/var partition disk consumption and failed updates) via a large number of package uploads.

Affected products

• Red Hat Satellite 6: 5.4

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0436.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48664
• http://www.osvdb.org/81481
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52832
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026873
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74498
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0436.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48664
• http://www.osvdb.org/81481
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52832
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026873
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74498

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