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CVE-2016-7040

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-10-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat CloudForms: 4.1

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893

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