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CVE-2014-3489

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3489 describes a vulnerability in lib/util/miq-password.rb within Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) before version 5.2.4.2, where a hard-coded salt is used for password hashing. This flaw significantly eases brute-force attacks against user passwords. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and potentially leading to partial confidentiality compromise. 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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0159 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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-2014-3489Low

CFME: Default salt value in miq-password.rb

Jun 30, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0816.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/68299