CloudForms Management Engine up to 5.7.2/5.8.0 RBAC access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in CloudForms Management Engine up to 5.7.2/5.8.0 (Cloud Software). This affects some unknown processing of the component RBAC. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1 lacks RBAC controls on certain methods in the rails application portion of CloudForms. An attacker with access could use a variety of methods within the rails application portion of CloudForms to escalate privileges.

The bug was discovered 07/26/2018. The weakness was published 07/26/2018 by Martin with Red Hat as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-2664 since 11/30/2016. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Required for exploitation is a authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 5.7.3 or 5.8.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 100148†). Similar entry is available at VDB-122206. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

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VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: CloudForms Management Engine 5.7.3/5.8.1

Timelineinfo

11/30/2016 🔍
08/02/2017 +244 days 🔍
07/26/2018 +357 days 🔍
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04/25/2023 +1734 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: RHSA-2017:1758
Researcher: Martin
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-2664 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 100148 - Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine CVE-2017-2664 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/26/2018 08:10 PM
Updated: 04/25/2023 06:45 PM
Changes: 07/26/2018 08:10 PM (62), 03/10/2020 11:45 AM (5), 04/25/2023 06:37 PM (4), 04/25/2023 06:45 PM (11)
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