Cloudforms Management EngineApplication · Redhat
CVE-2013-2049
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedRed Hat CloudForms 2 Management Engine (CFME) allows remote attackers to conduct session tampering attacks by leveraging use of a static secret_token.rb secret.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceRed Hat CloudForms 2 Management Engine uses a static, hardcoded secret token in the secret_token.rb file. This allows remote attackers to craft valid session cookies by deriving the secret, enabling session tampering and potential authentication bypass.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Cloudforms Management EngineApplication
= 2.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm CloudForms 2 installationIdentify whether Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine version 2.0 is installed on the system. Check the installed packages or application directory.Affected if Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine version 2.0 is installed
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Locate secret_token.rbFind the secret_token.rb file within the CloudForms installation directory structure. This file is typically in the config directory of the application.Affected if The file exists in the CloudForms installation
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Inspect secret token valueOpen secret_token.rb and examine the value assigned to_secret_token. Check if it appears to be a static, hardcoded string rather than a dynamically generated or environment-derived value.Affected if The secret_token is a static, hardcoded string value
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Compare to known static secretIf the specific hardcoded secret value from this CVE is known in your environment documentation, compare it against the value in secret_token.rb.Affected if The secret_token matches a known hardcoded value from this vulnerability
A system is affected if Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 2.0 is installed and contains a hardcoded/static secret token in the secret_token.rb file that can be derived by an attacker.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataReplace the static secret_token.rb value with a dynamically generated, unique secret and ensure proper secrets management practices to prevent future hardcoding.
Fix this in Cloudforms Management Engine
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation2.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2013-2049 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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