Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 4.0 ovirt-engine-webadmin access control
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 4.0 (Virtualization Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component ovirt-engine-webadmin. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
ovirt-engine-webadmin, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (aka RHEV-M) for Servers and RHEV-M 4.0, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass a webadmin session timeout restriction via vectors related to UI selections, which trigger repeating queries.
The bug was discovered 08/22/2016. The weakness was published 04/20/2017 by Greg Sheremeta with Red Hat as Bug 1369285 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-6338 since 07/26/2016. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 241 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 105210 (RHEL 7 : org.ovirt.engine-root (RHSA-2017:3427)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 9 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (105210).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068
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Remote: No
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Nessus ID: 105210
Nessus Name: RHEL 7 : org.ovirt.engine-root (RHSA-2017:3427)
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07/26/2016 🔍08/22/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: Bug 1369285
Researcher: Greg Sheremeta
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2016-6338 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 92666 - oVirt Engine CVE-2016-6338 Local Security Bypass Vulnerability
OSVDB: - CVE-2016-6338 - Red Hat - RHEV-M - Security Bypass Issue
Entry
Created: 04/21/2017 09:56Updated: 09/18/2020 20:13
Changes: 04/21/2017 09:56 (76), 09/18/2020 20:13 (4)
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