What is CVE-2012-0059?

CVE-2012-0059 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2014-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2012-0059?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

CVE-2012-0059

A flaw was found in Spacewalk-backend. This information disclosure vulnerability occurs when a system registration XML-RPC call fails, causing cleartext user passwords to be included in error messages. Remote administrators can exploit this by reading server logs and emails, leading to the unauthorized disclosure of user passwords.

Published 2014-02-05 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (75.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0101.html (Vendor Advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0102.html (Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0059 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0059?: CVE-2012-0059 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2014-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2012-0059?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.