Vulnerability CVE-2010-1439
Published: 2010-06-07   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable permissions for the /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file, which allows local users to access the Red Hat Network profile, and possibly prevent future security updates, by leveraging authentication data from this file.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.6/10
4.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Yum-rhn-plugin 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585386
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/59114
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1311
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40492
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0449.html
http://www.osvdb.org/65063
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024049
http://secunia.com/advisories/39996
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9232
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