CVE-2012-4574
Pulp: red hat cloudforms: pulp in red hat cloudforms: information disclosure via world-readable configuration file
CVE-2012-4574 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Redhat Cloudforms, published January 4, 2013. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.36%, the 30th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
A flaw was found in Pulp, as used in Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows a local user to read the administrative password due to world-readable permissions on the pulp.conf configuration file. This information disclosure could enable unauthorized access to sensitive system credentials.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Pulp: red hat cloudforms: pulp in red hat cloudforms: information disclosure via world-readable configuration file
A flaw was found in Pulp, as used in Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows a local user to read the administrative password due to world-readable permissions on the pulp.conf configuration file. This information disclosure could enable unauthorized access to sensitive system credentials.
- Record
CVE-2012-4574- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-538
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2012-4500
A flaw was found in Pulp, as used in Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows a local user to read the administrative password due to world-readable permissions on the pulp.conf configuration file. This information disclosure could enable unauthorized access to sensitive system credentials.
- Record
EUVD-2012-4500- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-4vm3-7378-9hc4
Pulp in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 uses world-readable permissions for pulp.conf, which allows...
Pulp in Red Hat CloudForms before 1.1 uses world-readable permissions for pulp.conf, which allows local users to read the administrative password by reading this file.
- Record
GHSA-4vm3-7378-9hc4- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-538
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
A flaw was found in Pulp, as used in Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows a local user to read the administrative password due to world-readable permissions on the pulp.conf configuration file. This information disclosure could enable unauthorized access to sensitive system credentials.
- Record
CVE-2012-4574- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 Low
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-538, CWE-255
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |