CVE-2009-4139

medium

Description

A flaw was found in Spacewalk Java site packages. This cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability allows a remote attacker to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users. This can lead to unauthorized actions, including disabling user accounts, adding new user accounts, or escalating privileges by modifying existing user accounts to have administrator access.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68074

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529483

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4139

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0879.html

http://securitytracker.com/id?1025674

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-07-27

Updated: 2026-04-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00173