CVE-2016-4471

27

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4471 describes a critical vulnerability in ManageIQ, specifically affecting CloudForms versions prior to 4.1, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and privileges, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its significant impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (e.g., Metasploit, ExploitDB), or notable community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 4.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms::::::::

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

2.31%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

81.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0231 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 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 (32)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: cfme-0:5.6.0.13-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.6.0.13-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.6.0.13-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: prince-0:9.0r2-10.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-pglogical-0:1.0.1-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-pglogical-output-0:1.0.1-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-bcrypt-0:3.1.10-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-escape_utils-0:1.1.0-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-eventmachine-0:1.0.7-6.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-ffi-0:1.9.8-4.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-hamlit-0:2.0.2-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-http_parser.rb-0:0.6.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-json-0:1.8.2-9.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-linux_block_device-0:0.1.0-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-memory_buffer-0:0.1.0-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-net_app_manageability-0:0.1.0-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-nio4r-0:1.2.1-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.6.6.2-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-pg-0:0.18.2-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-psych-0:2.0.13-4.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-puma-0:3.3.0-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-redhat_access_cfme-0:1.0.3-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-redhat_access_lib-0:0.0.6-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-rugged-0:0.23.3-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-thin-0:1.6.3-2.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-unf_ext-0:0.0.7.1-3.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-rubygem-websocket-driver-0:0.6.3-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: smem-0:1.4-1.el7cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.6Fixed in: wmi-0:1.3.14-6.el7cf

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.3Fixed in: cfme

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.4Fixed in: cfme

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.5Fixed in: cfme

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-4471Low

cfme: Privilege escalation causing arbitrary code execution

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

github.com / ManageIQ/manageiq/pull/7856

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory