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medium 6.0

CVE-2013-2113 json

The create method in app/controllers/users_controller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to…

published 2013-07-31 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-2083

cvss
6.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
20.9%
EPSS 20.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The create method in app/controllers/users_controller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to create or edit other users to gain privileges by (1) changing the admin flag or (2) assigning an arbitrary role.

Patch / fix

  • ruby193-foreman openstack 3 1.1.10009-3.el6ost
  • ruby193-rubygem-fog openstack 3 1.10.1-11.el6ost
  • ruby193-foreman-mysql openstack 3 1.1.10009-3.el6ost
  • ruby193-foreman-proxy openstack 3 1.1.10001-4.el6ost
  • ruby193-rubygem-mysql openstack 3 2.8.1-4.el6ost
  • ruby193-rubygem-ancestry openstack 3 1.3.0-5.el6ost
  • ruby193-rubygem-safemode openstack 3 1.2.0-9.el6ost
  • ruby193-openstack-foreman-installer openstack 3 0.0.18-1.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0995

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-2013-2113 updated cvss 3.5

Foreman: app/controllers/users_controller.rb arbitrary admin user creation due to mass assignment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 ruby193-foreman 1.1.10009-3.el6ost, ruby193-rubygem-fog 1.10.1-11.el6ost, ruby193-rubygem-mysql 2.8.1-4.el6ost, ruby193-rubygem-ancestry 1.3.0-5.el6ost, ruby193-rubygem-safemode 1.2.0-9.el6ost, ruby193-foreman-mysql 1.1.10009-3.el6ost, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0995
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 foreman, foreman-cli, foreman-ec2, foreman-gce, foreman-ovirt, foreman-vmware, +9 more
    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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/admin/http/foreman_openstack_satellite_priv_esc)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

20.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

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

References

Sources

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