Bug 1042677 (CVE-2013-6439)

Summary:	CVE-2013-6439 candlepin: insecure authentication enabled by default
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Garth Mollett <gmollett>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	athomas, bkearney, cpelland, jrusnack, mmccune, omaciel, sclewis, security-response-team, sthirugn
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1042682
Bug Blocks:	1042680

Description Garth Mollett 2013-12-13 04:11:36 UTC

Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin> reports:

We have identified a fairly serious security issue in previous, or
upgraded versions of Subscription Asset Manager (SAM).

The issue was caused by an extremely insecure authentication mode in the
candlepin project, which was mistakenly enabled by default if no setting
was specified in the config file.

Comment 3 Garth Mollett 2013-12-17 19:42:00 UTC

Acknowledgment:

This issue was discovered by Adrian Likins of RedHat.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-19 23:02:35 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.3

Via RHSA-2013:1863 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1863.html