Red Hat CloudForms 4.7/5.0 EVM-Operator Group authorization

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Red Hat CloudForms 4.7/5.0. This impacts an unknown function of the component EVM-Operator Group Handler. This manipulation causes authorization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-10783. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat CloudForms 4.7/5.0 (Cloud Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component EVM-Operator Group Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 and 5 is affected by a role-based privilege escalation flaw. An attacker with EVM-Operator group can perform actions restricted only to EVM-Super-administrator group, leads to, exporting or importing administrator files.

The weakness was disclosed 08/11/2020 as Bug 1847811 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-10783 since 03/20/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2020).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Cloud Software

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• Red Hat

Name

• CloudForms

Version

• 4.7
• 5.0

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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