CVE-2016-7040 describes a critical vulnerability in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1, allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary shell commands. This is achieved by manipulating regular expressions through the JSON API or web-based UI when viewing and filtering collections. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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