What is CVE-2016-7040?

CVE-2016-7040 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Cloudforms_management_engine, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-10-07.

How severe is CVE-2016-7040?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Redhat Cloudforms_management_engine

CVE-2016-7040

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 lev…

EPSS: 0.006 (71.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Redhat Cloudforms_management_engine — versions 4.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

93893 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
RHSA-2016:1996 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-7040?: CVE-2016-7040 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Cloudforms_management_engine, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2016-7040?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.