CVE-2016-4457

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4457 describes a vulnerability in CloudForms Management Engine before version 5.8, where the software ships with a default SSL/TLS certificate. This issue carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that could lead to high confidentiality impact, such as unauthorized information disclosure. While no public exploit intelligence like Metasploit modules or ExploitDB entries are available, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, the use of a default certificate still poses a significant security risk.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		5.7CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:5.7:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.06%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

61.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0106 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (56)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: wmi-0:1.3.14-7.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.7Fixed in: cfme-0:5.7.3.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.7Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.7.3.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.7Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.7.3.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.7Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.7.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.7Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-ovirt-engine-sdk4-0:4.1.5-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: ansible-0:2.2.1.0-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: ansible-tower-0:3.1.2-1.el7at

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: bubblewrap-0:0.1.7-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-0:5.8.0.17-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.8.0.17-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.8.0.17-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: erlang-0:19.0.4-1.el7at

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: freeipmi-0:1.5.1-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: google-compute-engine-0:2.0.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: google-config-0:2.0.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: libtomcrypt-0:1.17-23.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: libtommath-0:0.42.0-4.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: nginx-1:1.10.2-1.el7at

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: postgresql94-0:9.4.11-2PGDG.el7at

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: prince-0:9.0r2-10.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-crypto-0:2.6.1-7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-ecdsa-0:0.11-4.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-httplib2-0:0.9.1-2.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-keyczar-0:0.71c-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-meld3-0:0.6.10-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-paramiko-0:1.15.2-3.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: python-passlib-0:1.6.5-1.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rabbitmq-server-0:3.6.5-1.el7at

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-pglogical-0:1.2.1-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-repmgr-0:3.1.3-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-bcrypt-0:3.1.10-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-eventmachine-0:1.0.7-6.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-ffi-0:1.9.8-4.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-hamlit-0:2.7.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-http_parser.rb-0:0.6.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-0:2.0.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-linux_block_device-0:0.2.1-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-memory_buffer-0:0.1.0-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-net_app_manageability-0:0.1.0-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-nio4r-0:1.2.1-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.6.8-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-ovirt-engine-sdk4-0:4.1.5-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-pg-0:0.18.2-5.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-pkg-config-0:1.1.7-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-puma-0:3.3.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-redhat_access_cfme-0:1.1.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-redhat_access_lib-0:0.1.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-rugged-0:0.25.0-b10.2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-thin-0:1.7.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-unf_ext-0:0.0.7.1-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-websocket-driver-0:0.6.3-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: smem-0:1.4-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: sshpass-0:1.06-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: supervisor-0:3.1.3-3.el7

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-4457Moderate

CFME: default certificate used across all installs

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1367

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1601

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingVendor Advisory

securitytracker.com / id/1038599