CVE-2010-1171: Red Hat Satellite

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3 and 5.4 exposes a dangerous, obsolete XML-RPC API, which allows remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (failed yum operations) via vectors related to configuration and package group (comps.xml) files for channels.

Affected products

• Red Hat Satellite: version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only

Published 2011-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.