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CVE-2012-5476

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-12-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Within the RHOS Essex Preview (2012.2) of the OpenStack dashboard package, the file /etc/quantum/quantum.conf is world readable which exposes the admin password and token value.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• OpenStack Horizon: 2012.2

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5476
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5476
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5476
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5476
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5476
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5476

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