Is CVE-2012-6149 being actively exploited?

CVE-2012-6149 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2012-6149?

CVE-2012-6149 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 3.5 (LOW).

CVE-2012-6149

LOW · CVSS 3.5EPSS 1.6%EU EUVD

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in systems/sdc/notes.jsp in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) subject or (2) content values of a note in a system.addNote XML-RPC call.

Key facts

CVSS score: 3.5 (v2.0)
Severity: LOW
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
EPSS score: 1.6% (76th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2012-6005)
Published: February 14, 2014
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-6005 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

redhat / satellite
redhat / satellite 5 managed db
redhat / spacewalk-java

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0148.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/56952(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882000(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=18c70164285cae0660fa3ac55c6656bb19b3b13f(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=1d0f4b4a78ea03d9f2d05fbd52236b1f2ab68e85(Exploit, Patch)
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140222-1.html(Vendor Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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