CVE-2016-7040

CVSS V2 High 9 CVSS V3 High 8.8

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2016-7040

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2016-10-07T14:59:07

Last Modified Date
2016-11-28T20:37:02

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-284	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/284.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:4.1:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
9

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
8

Impact Score
10

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
8.8

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html	Mitigation Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7040
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7040

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 10:03:50				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 11:33:14	2016-10-07T14:59Z	2016-10-07T14:59:07	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 11:33:14		2016-11-28T20:37:02	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 11:33:14		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated