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CVE-2011-4083 json

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 1.7-9 and 2.x before 2.2-17 includes (1) Certificate-based Red Hat Network private…

published 2014-02-17 12 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-4034

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 1.7-9 and 2.x before 2.2-17 includes (1) Certificate-based Red Hat Network private entitlement keys and the (2) private key for the entitlement in an archive of debugging information, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the archive.

Patch / fix

  • sos RHEL 5 1.7-9.62.el5
  • sos RHEL 6 2.2-17.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:0153RHSA-2011:1536

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-4083 updated cvss 4.3

sos: sosreport is gathering certificate-based RHN entitlement private keys

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) sos 1.7-9.62.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) sos 1.7-9.62.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:0153
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) sos 2.2-17.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) sos 2.2-17.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) sos 2.2-17.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) sos 2.2-17.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:1536
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 sos
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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