CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-7040

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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, allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary shell commands.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized access to the system and execution of malicious code by authenticated users, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and restrict API access to trusted users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS