CVE-2013-2113
The create method in app/controllers/users_controller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 20.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Foreman (Red Hat OpenStack/Satellite) users/create Mass Assignment (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/admin/http/foreman_openstack_satellite_priv_escRank normaldisclosed 6 Jun 2013
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Foreman (RedHat OpenStack/Satellite) - users/create Mass Assignment (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27776webapps, linuxpublished 22 Aug 2013Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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By redhat
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.9% · top 2.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- RHSA-2013:0995 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968166 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/2630 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/foreman-users/6WpO_3ugiXU (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-2083 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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