CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0861
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-01-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
The vds_installer in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.1, when adding a host, uses the -k curl parameter when downloading deployUtil.py and vds_bootstrap.py, which prevents SSL certificates from being validated and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via a man-in-the-middle attack.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise virtualization manager (<= 3.0)
• redhat enterprise virtualization manager 2.1
• redhat enterprise virtualization manager 2.2
• redhat enterprise virtualization manager 2.2.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1505.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1506.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1508.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56825 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027838 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80544 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1505.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1506.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1508.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56825 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027838 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80544 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com