foreman is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerability exists as the create method in app/controllers/users_controller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to create or edit other users to gain privileges by (1) changing the admin flag or (2) assigning an arbitrary role.
projects.theforeman.org/issues/2630
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0995.html
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access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2113
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bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968166
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969531
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971545
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972780
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975068
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976907
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