Red Hat Spacewalk/RHN up to 5.7 RPC Interface File information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Red Hat Spacewalk and RHN up to 5.7. The affected element is an unknown function of the component RPC Interface. The manipulation leads to information disclosure (File). This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-8162. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Spacewalk and RHN up to 5.7 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component RPC Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (File). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

XML external entity (XXE) in the RPC interface in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

The weakness was shared 05/14/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at rhn.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-8162 since 10/10/2014. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/17/2022). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 83343 (RHEL 6 : spacewalk-java (RHSA-2015:0957)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (83343), SecurityFocus (BID 74595†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-50007†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Name: File
Class: Information disclosure / File
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 83343
Nessus Name: RHEL 6 : spacewalk-java (RHSA-2015:0957)
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10/10/2014 🔍
01/29/2015 +111 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: RHSA-2015:0957
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2014-8162 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-8162
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-75389
SecurityFocus: 74595 - Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk XML External Entity Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 50007 - RedHat Satellite Remote File System Read or Other Impact via XML External Entity (XXE) Attack, High

Entryinfo

Created: 05/15/2015 11:08
Updated: 05/17/2022 14:56
Changes: 05/15/2015 11:08 (54), 06/28/2017 06:26 (10), 05/17/2022 14:55 (3), 05/17/2022 14:56 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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