# CVE-2012-2230: Auth bypass in n/a

> Authenticated users can impersonate arbitrary accounts in Cloudera Manager when Kerberos is disabled, leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Apr 2012
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-53g2-fc94-rp68

## What is CVE-2012-2230?

CVE-2012-2230 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Apr 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-310

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2230?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Cloudera Cloudera Manager, Cloudera Cloudera Service and Configuration Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-2230?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-2230 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-2230 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2230 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2021-30132](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-30132/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2017-7399](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7399/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2018-11744](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11744/): Missing authorization in n/a (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2015-6495](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6495/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2017-9326](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9326/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-2230 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-2230 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Apr 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2230 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2230/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2230/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2230
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2230
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2230

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2230/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.