CVE-2012-2230

medium

Published 2012-04-12 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Cloudera Manager 3.7.x before 3.7.5 and Service and Configuration Manager 3.5, when Kerberos is not enabled, does not properly install taskcontroller.cfg, which allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary user accounts via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1574.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cloudera	cloudera_manager	`3.7.0`
cloudera	cloudera_manager	`3.7.1`
cloudera	cloudera_manager	`3.7.2`
cloudera	cloudera_manager	`3.7.3`
cloudera	cloudera_manager	`3.7.4`
cloudera	cloudera_service_and_configuration_manager	`3.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.