VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-7040

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability2.26%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-10-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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 leveraging the ability to view and filter collections.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Primary references