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CVE-2014-7813

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7813 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Red Hat CloudForms 3 Management Engine (CFME) that allows remote authenticated users to consume system resources. This is achieved through repeated calls to the .to_sym Rails function, leading to a lack of garbage collection for inserted symbols. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires authentication, but can result in a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_3.0_management_engine:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0104 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: cfme

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7813Low

CFME: rails .to_sym symbol DoS

Nov 6, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory