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CVE-2013-4180 json

The (1) power and (2) ipmi_boot actions in the HostController in Foreman before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-4103

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The (1) power and (2) ipmi_boot actions in the HostController in Foreman before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified input that is converted to a symbol.

Patch / fix

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 1:3.14.5.10-9.el6sat
  • v8 satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 1:3.14.5.10-11.el7sat
  • foreman satellite 6.0 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat
  • foreman satellite 6.0 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat
  • katello satellite 6.0 1.5.0-30.el6sat
  • katello satellite 6.0 1.5.0-30.el7sat
  • mongodb satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 2.4.6-2.el6sat
  • mongodb satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 2.4.9-3.el7sat

red hat advisories RHEA-2014:1175RHSA-2013:1196

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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-2013-4180 updated cvss 4.0

Foreman: hosts_controller.rb power/ipmi_boot Symbol creation DoS

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 ruby193-foreman
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 ruby193-foreman 1.1.10014-1.2.el6ost, ruby193-foreman-mysql 1.1.10014-1.2.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1196
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.0 foreman 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat, foreman 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat, foreman-gce 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat, foreman-gce 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat, foreman-ovirt 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat, foreman-ovirt 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat, +8 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHEA-2014:1175
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.0 jansi 1.9-7.el7, bsf 2.4.0-19.el7, cglib 2.2-18.el7, guava 13.0-6.el7, xbean 3.13-6.el7, hawtjni 1.6-9.el7, +745 more Red Hat Satellite 6.0 - Optional ant-jmf 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-jsch 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-antlr 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-swing 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-manual 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-javadoc 1.9.2-9.el7, +21 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.0 hiera 1.3.1-2.el7, hiera 1.0.0-3.el6_4, gofer 1.3.0-1.el6sat, gofer 1.3.0-1.el7sat, qpid-cpp 0.22-42.el6, qpid-cpp 0.22-42.el7, +219 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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