CVE-2016-7040 (GCVE-0-2016-7040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-10-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:50
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Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2016-10-04 00:00
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