CVE-2012-0059: Red Hat Network Proxy

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Spacewalk-backend. This information disclosure vulnerability occurs when a system registration XML-RPC call fails, causing cleartext user passwords to be included in error messages. Remote administrators can exploit this by reading server logs and emails, leading to the unauthorized disclosure of user passwords.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Network Proxy: version 5.4 only
  • Red Hat Satellite: version 5.4 only

Published 2014-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.