CVE-2012-3359: Red Hat Conga

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Luci in Red Hat Conga stores the user's username and password in a Base64 encoded string in the __ac session cookie, which allows attackers to gain privileges by accessing this cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2013-7347 for the incorrect enforcement of a user timeout.

Affected products

• Red Hat Conga: any version
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only

Published 2014-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.