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.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat CloudForms 5 | cfme +2 | 5.6.2.1-1.el7cf | RHSA-2016:1996 |
| Red Hat CloudForms 5 | rh-ruby22-rubygem-nokogiri | 1.6.8-1.el7cf | RHSA-2016:1996 |
| Red Hat CloudForms 5 | rh-ruby22-rubygem-pkg-config +1 | 1.1.7-1.el7cf | RHSA-2016:1996 |
| Red Hat CloudForms 5 | rh-ruby22-rubygem-thin | 1.7.0-1.el7cf | RHSA-2016:1996 |
Advisories 1
- RHSA-2016:1996 Red Hat Security Advisory: CFME 4.1 bug fixes and enhancement update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 27, 2026
References
- 93893 vdb-entry
- RHSA-2016:1996 vendor-advisory