CVE-2012-2230: cloudera cloudera_manager Cryptographic Issues

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-2230 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in cloudera cloudera_manager. EPSS estimates a 1.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 12-04-2012
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cloudera Manager 3.7.x before 3.7.5 and Service and Configuration Manager 3.5, when Kerberos is not enabled, does not properly install taskcontroller.cfg, which allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary user accounts via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1574.

• CWE-310Cryptographic IssuesWeaknesses in this category are related to the design and implementation of data confidentiality and integrity. Frequently these deal with the use of encoding techniques, encryption libraries, and hashing algorithms. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality data if they are not addressed.