High severity · published Oct 7, 2016
CVE-2016-7040
Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1 does not properly handle regular expressions passed to the expression engine via the JSON API and the web-based UI, which allows remote…
8.8
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1 does not properly handle regular expressions passed to the expression engine via the JSON API and the web-based UI, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary shell commands by leveraging the ability to view and filter collections.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CM
Cloudforms Management Engine · Redhat
4.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7040
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7040
Mitigation
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893
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