CVE-2013-4180
Foreman: hosts_controller.rb power/ipmi_boot Symbol creation DoS
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
The (1) power and (2) ipmi_boot actions in the HostController in Foreman before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified input that is converted to a symbol.
Las acciones (1) power y (2) ipmi_boot en el HostController de Foreman anterior 1.2.2 permite a atacante remoto causar denegacion de servicio (consumo de memoria) a través de una entrda sin especificar que es convertida a un simbolo
The Foreman packages provide facilities for rapidly deploying Red Hat OpenStack 3.0. These packages are provided as a Technology Preview. For more information on the scope and nature of support for items marked as Technology Preview, refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/ A flaw was found in the API where insufficient privilege checks were conducted by the hosts controller, allowing any user with API access to control any host. A denial of service flaw was found in Foreman in the way user input was converted to a symbol. An authenticated user could create inputs that would lead to excessive memory consumption.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2013-06-12 CVE Reserved
- 2013-09-04 CVE Published
- 2024-08-06 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
- CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CAPEC
References (5)
| URL | Tag | Source |
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| http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/2860 | X_refsource_confirm |
| URL | Date | SRC |
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| URL | Date | SRC |
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| http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.2/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.2.2 | 2023-02-13 |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1196.html | 2023-02-13 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4180 | 2013-09-03 | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989755 | 2013-09-03 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Openstack Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openstack" | 3.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openstack" and version "3.0" | - |
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| Theforeman Search vendor "Theforeman" | Foreman Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" | <= 1.2.1 Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" and version " <= 1.2.1" | - |
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| Theforeman Search vendor "Theforeman" | Foreman Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" | 1.2.0 Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" and version "1.2.0" | - |
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| Theforeman Search vendor "Theforeman" | Foreman Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" | 1.2.0 Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" and version "1.2.0" | rc1 |
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| Theforeman Search vendor "Theforeman" | Foreman Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" | 1.2.0 Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" and version "1.2.0" | rc2 |
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