CVE-2016-7071
HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 10, 2018 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:52 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorCloudFormsCloudforms Management Engine
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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Affected range stops below 5.6.2.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 5.7.0.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2091.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7071CVSS
8.8HIGHredhat
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-285
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