Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2013-2143 json

The users controller in Katello 1.5.0-14 and earlier, and Red Hat Satellite, does not check authorization for the update_roles action, whic…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-2108

cvss
6.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
48.2%
EPSS 48.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Metasploit and Exploit-DB

Summary

The users controller in Katello 1.5.0-14 and earlier, and Red Hat Satellite, does not check authorization for the update_roles action, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by setting a user account to an administrator account.

Is CVE-2013-2143 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

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-2013-2143 updated cvss 4.0

Katello: /app/controllers/users_controller.rb insufficient privilege check

  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager katello
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 katello, katello-common, katello-capsule, katello-service, foreman-proxy-content
    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/katello_satellite_priv_esc)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

48.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit auxiliary/admin/http/katello_satellite_priv_esc Katello (Red Hat Satellite) users/update_roles Missing Authorization metasploit auxiliary, normal rank, 2014-03-24
  • EDB-32515 Katello (RedHat Satellite) - users/update_roles Missing Authorisation (Metasploit) remote, 2014-03-26
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125866/Katello-Red-Hat-Satellite-users-update_roles-Missing-Authorization.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66434 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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.