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 thi…

EPSS: 0.004 (58.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, 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.