CVE-2012-3503: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The installation script in Katello 1.0 and earlier does not properly generate the Application.config.secret_token value, which causes each default installation to have the same secret token, and allows remote attackers to authenticate to the CloudForms System Engine web interface as an arbitrary user by creating a cookie using the default secret_token.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Theforeman Katello: up to and including 1.0

Published 2012-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.