Vulnerability in Redhat Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine

CVE-2014-3489

lib/util/miq-password.rb in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) before 5.2.4.2 uses a hard-coded salt, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack.

EPSS: 0.016 (73.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Cloudforms_3.0_management_engine — versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.1.6
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-255

References

secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)