CVE-2012-6119

low

Published 2013-04-02 · 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

2.1

Description

Candlepin before 0.7.24, as used in Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager before 1.2.1, does not properly check manifest signatures, which allows local users to modify manifests.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
candlepinproject	candlepin	`{"endIncluding":"0.7.2"}`
candlepinproject	candlepin	`0.4.5`
candlepinproject	candlepin	`0.4.11`
candlepinproject	candlepin	`0.4.27`
candlepinproject	candlepin	`0.5.5`
candlepinproject	candlepin	`0.6.3`
redhat	subscription_asset_manager	`{"endIncluding":"1.2.0"}`
redhat	subscription_asset_manager	`1.0.0`
redhat	subscription_asset_manager	`1.1.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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