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CVE-2016-7071

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

It was found that the CloudForms before 5.6.2.2, and 5.7.0.7 did not properly apply permissions controls to VM IDs passed by users. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary VMs on systems managed by CloudForms if they know the ID of the VM.

Affected products

• CloudForms: 4.1
• Red Hat CloudForms: before 5.6.2.2; from 5.7.0.0 before 5.7.0.7 — fixed in 5.6.2.2, 5.7.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat CloudForms 5.6.2.2, 5.7.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2091.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7071
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2091.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7071

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