CVE-2016-3728

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in tftp_api.rb in the TFTP module in the Smart-Proxy in Foreman before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the PXE template type portion of the PATH_INFO to tftp/.

Affected products

foreman: 1.11.0, 1.11.0-rc1, 1.11.0-rc2, 1.11.0-rc3, 1.11.1, 1.10.3

References

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/14931
http://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-3728
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/19/2
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1501
https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy/commit/eef532aa668d656b9d61d9c6edf7c2505f3f43c7
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/14931
http://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-3728
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/19/2
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1501
https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy/commit/eef532aa668d656b9d61d9c6edf7c2505f3f43c7

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