Denial Of Service (DoS)

spacewalk-backend is vulnerable to denial of service. It was found that a remote attacker could upload packages to an RHN Satellite server's NULL organization without any authorization or authentication. The NULL organization stores packages synced from RHN Hosted. Although an attacker cannot put...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Network Satellite spacewalk-backend security update

Updated spacewalk-backend packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whi...

satellite: remote package upload without authorization

spacewalk-backend in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 does not properly authorize or authenticate uploads to the NULL organization when modwsgi is used, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service /var partition disk consumption and failed updates via a...