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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-0097 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-02T23:42:30.680Z

Reserved: 2011-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-0059

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-02-05T18:55:06.223

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-0059

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-0059 - Bugzilla

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