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CVE-2014-0180

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0180 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) before version 5.2.4.2. Specifically, the wait_for_task function in app/controllers/application_controller.rb can be exploited by remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop and high CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_3.0_management_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_3.0_management_engine:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_3.0_management_engine:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_3.0_management_engine:5.2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_3.0_management_engine:5.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0183 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.xFixed in: cfme-0:5.2.4.2-1.el6cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.xFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.13-8.el6cf
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0180Moderate

CFME: app/controllers/application_controller.rb wait_for_task DoS

Jun 30, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0816.html
Vendor Advisory