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CVE-2012-6117

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Aeolus Configuration Server, as used in Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine before 1.1.2, uses world-readable permissions for /var/log/aeolus-configserver/configserver.log, which allows local users to read plaintext passwords by reading the log file.

Affected products

• RedHat Cloudforms Cloud Engine: through 1.1; 1.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0545.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875294
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0545.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875294

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