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CVE-2016-5402

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5402 is a high-severity code injection flaw affecting Red Hat CloudForms and CloudForms Management Engine. An authenticated attacker with access to the capacity and utilization feature could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The attack is network-based and low complexity, but requires prior authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0593 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 17,808 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: cfme-0:5.6.3.3-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.6.3.3-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.6.3.3-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: freeipmi-0:1.5.1-2.el7cf
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5402Important

cfme: RCE via Capacity & Utilization feature

Nov 30, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2839.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
securityfocus.com / bid/94612
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry