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CVE-2012-6116

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-03-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

modules/certs/manifests/config.pp in katello-configure before 1.3.3.pulpv2 in Katello uses weak permissions (666) for the Candlepin bootstrap RPM, which allows local users to modify the Candlepin CA certificate by writing to this file.

Affected products

• Katello: all versions
• Katello-Configure: through 1.3.2_pulpv2

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0547.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52774
• https://github.com/Katello/katello/commits/master/katello-configure/katello-configure.spec
• https://github.com/jsomara/katello/commit/65f1e42b7bda0f3410931c50598540d944d8bf0d
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0547.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52774
• https://github.com/Katello/katello/commits/master/katello-configure/katello-configure.spec
• https://github.com/jsomara/katello/commit/65f1e42b7bda0f3410931c50598540d944d8bf0d

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