Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2, which fixes several security issues, multiple bugs, and adds various enhancements, is now available.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager acts as a proxy for handling subscription information and software updates on client machines.

It was discovered that Katello did not properly check user permissions when handling certain requests. An authenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to download consumer certificates or change settings of other users' systems if they knew the target system's UUID.
(CVE-2012-5603)

A vulnerability in rubygem-ldap_fluff allowed a remote attacker to bypass authentication and log into Subscription Asset Manager when a Microsoft Active Directory server was used as the back-end authentication server. (CVE-2012-5604)

It was found that the '/usr/share/katello/script/katello-generate-passphrase' utility, which is run during the installation and configuration process, set world-readable permissions on the '/etc/katello/secure/passphrase' file. A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain the passphrase for Katello, giving them access to information they would otherwise not have access to. (CVE-2012-5561)

Note: After installing this update, ensure the '/etc/katello/secure/passphrase' file is owned by the root user and group and mode 0750 permissions. Sites should also consider re-creating the Katello passphrase as this issue exposed it to local users.

Three flaws were found in rubygem-rack. A remote attacker could use these flaws to perform a denial of service attack against applications using rubygem-rack. (CVE-2012-6109, CVE-2013-0183, CVE-2013-0184)

A flaw was found in the way rubygem-activerecord dynamic finders extracted options from method parameters. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform SQL injection attacks against applications using the Active Record dynamic finder methods.
(CVE-2012-6496)

It was found that ruby_parser from rubygem-ruby_parser created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting arbitrary files accessible to the application using ruby_parser. (CVE-2013-0162)

The CVE-2012-5603 issue was discovered by Lukas Zapletal of Red Hat;
CVE-2012-5604 was discovered by Og Maciel of Red Hat; CVE-2012-5561 was discovered by Aaron Weitekamp of the Red Hat Cloud Quality Engineering team; and CVE-2013-0162 was discovered by Michael Scherer of the Red Hat Regional IT team.

These updated Subscription Asset Manager packages include a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Refer to the Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2 Release Notes for information about these changes :

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/ Red_Hat_Subscription_Asset_Manager/1.2/html/Release_Notes/index.html

All users of Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues and add various enhancements.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1543 advisory.

  - katello: pulp admin password logged in plaintext in world-readable katello/production.log (CVE-2012-3538)

  - pulp /etc/pulp/pulp.conf world readable, contains default admin password (CVE-2012-4574)

  - CloudForms Katello: lack of authorization in proxies_controller.rb (CVE-2012-5603)

  - CloudForms grinder: /var/lib/pulp/cache/grinder directory is world-writeable (CVE-2012-5605)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
65172	RHEL 6 : Subscription Asset Manager (RHSA-2013:0544)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	3/10/2013	1/14/2021	high
193973	RHEL 5 / 6 : CloudForms System Engine 1.1 update (Important) (RHSA-2012:1543)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	4/27/2024	4/27/2024	medium

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