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CVE-2009-4139

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A flaw was found in Spacewalk Java site packages.

Vendor / product: Redhat — network satellite server

A flaw was found in Spacewalk Java site packages. This cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability allows a remote attacker to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users. This can lead to unauthorized actions, including disabling user accounts, adding new user accounts, or escalating privileges by modifying existing user accounts to have administrator access.

CVSS
6.8
6.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2011-07-27 02:55
Modified: 2026-10-30 19:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 19:20 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

redhat / network_satellite_server 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.4.1
redhat / spacewalk-java 1.2.39

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0879.html
Vendor advisory: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0879.html
Patch / mitigation: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0879.html
Patch / mitigation: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0879.html

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 19:20 UTC · record ↗

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