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critical 9.3

CVE-2013-6439 json

Candlepin in Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.0 through 1.3 uses a weak authentication scheme when the configuration file does not spec…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-6248

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Candlepin in Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.0 through 1.3 uses a weak authentication scheme when the configuration file does not specify a scheme, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors.

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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-2013-6439 updated cvss 9.0

candlepin: insecure authentication enabled by default

  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager for RHEL 6 Server candlepin 0.8.26.0-1.el6sam, candlepin-selinux 0.8.26.0-1.el6sam, candlepin-tomcat6 0.8.26.0-1.el6sam
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1863
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, candlepin-selinux
    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

1.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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