CVE-2016-7040

HIGH

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Regular Expression Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0226
EPSS Percentile 80.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
redhat/cloudforms_management_engine 4.1
Published Oct 07, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026