CVE-2012-3503

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
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: 2012-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-798

Description

The installation script in Katello 1.0 and earlier does not properly generate the Application.config.secret_token value, which causes each default installation to have the same secret token, and allows remote attackers to authenticate to the CloudForms System Engine web interface as an arbitrary user by creating a cookie using the default secret_token.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
Katello: through 1.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1186.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1187.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50344
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55140
https://github.com/Katello/katello/commit/7c256fef9d75029d0ffff58ff1dcda915056d3a3
https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/499
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1186.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1187.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50344
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55140
https://github.com/Katello/katello/commit/7c256fef9d75029d0ffff58ff1dcda915056d3a3
https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/499

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