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CVE-2012-6118 json

The Administer tab in Aeolus Conductor allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended quota restrictions by updating the Maximum Runn…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2012-5985

cvss
5.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Administer tab in Aeolus Conductor allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended quota restrictions by updating the Maximum Running Instances quota user setting.

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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-2012-6118 updated cvss 5.5

Conductor: Unprivileged user can change their own Maximum Running Instances quota

  • Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine for RHEL 6 Server oz 0.8.0-8.el6cf, aeolus-all 0.13.26-1.el6cf, imagefactory 1.0.3-1.el6cf, aeolus-conductor 0.13.26-1.el6cf, aeolus-configserver 0.4.12-3.el6cf, aeolus-conductor-daemons 0.13.26-1.el6cf, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0545

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

1.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906192 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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