Vulnerability in Redhat Satellite

CVE-2010-1171

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3 and 5.4 exposes a dangerous, obsolete XML-RPC API, which allows remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (failed yum operations) via vectors related to configuration and package group (comps.xml) files for channels.

EPSS: 0.028 (85.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Satellite — versions 5.3, 5.4
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Not Applicable)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)