vdsm: certificate generation upon node creation allowing vdsm to start and serve requests from anyone who has a matching key (and certifica…

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5410

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits: 0; none known

vdsm: certificate generation upon node creation allowing vdsm to start and serve requests from anyone who has a matching key (and certificate)

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-2012-5518 updated 2026-11-04 cvss 6.8

vdsm: certificate generation upon node creation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 vdsm22 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vdsm
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

vdsm vdsm

Classification

Weakness

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5518
issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
access.redhat.com /security/cve/cve-2012-5518
third-party-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2012/11/11/3
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2012-5518
NVD CVE-2012-5518

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary