Insecure SSL Certificate Validation in vds_installer Allows Remote Code Execution

CVE-2012-0861 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The vds_installer in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.1, when adding a host, uses the -k curl parameter when downloading deployUtil.py and vds_bootstrap.py, which prevents SSL certificates from being validated and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via a man-in-the-middle attack.

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