Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine

CVE-2014-7813

Red Hat CloudForms 3 Management Engine (CFME) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving calls to the .to_sym rails function and lack of garbage collection of inserted symbols.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 62.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2014-7813: held from 0.010 to 0.010.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-7813?
CVE-2014-7813 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-10-18.
How severe is CVE-2014-7813?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.