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Cleartext Password Exposure in Spacewalk-backend

CVE-2012-0059 · MEDIUM

CVE-2012-0059

Spacewalk-backend in Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite and Proxy 5.4 includes cleartext user passwords in an error message when a system registration XML-RPC call fails, which allows remote administrators to obtain the password by reading (1) the server log and (2) an email.

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