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CVE-2012-3359 json

Luci in Red Hat Conga stores the user's username and password in a Base64 encoded string in the __ac session cookie, which allows attackers…

published 2014-03-30 12 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-3336

cvss
3.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Luci in Red Hat Conga stores the user's username and password in a Base64 encoded string in the __ac session cookie, which allows attackers to gain privileges by accessing this cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2013-7347 for the incorrect enforcement of a user timeout.

Patch / fix

  • conga RHEL 5 CLUSTER 0.12.2-64.el5
  • luci RHEL 5 CLUSTER 0.12.2-64.el5
  • ricci RHEL 5 CLUSTER 0.12.2-64.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0128

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-2012-3359 updated cvss 3.7

conga: insecure handling of luci web interface sessions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 conga
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Clustering (v. 5 server) luci 0.12.2-64.el5, conga 0.12.2-64.el5, ricci 0.12.2-64.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0128

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.7 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

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