National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0861

Overview

The vds_installer in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.1, when adding a host, uses the -k curl parameter when downloading deployUtil.py and vds_bootstrap.py, which prevents SSL certificates from being validated and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: enterprise-ssl-certificates-mitm(80544)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80544

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027838

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027838

External Source: BID

Name: 56825

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56825

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1508

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1508.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1506

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1506.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1505

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1505.html