VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7040

high
Published 2016-10-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
9.0
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1 does not properly handle regular expressions passed to the expression engine via the JSON API and the web-based UI, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary shell commands by leveraging the ability to view and filter collections.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhatcloudforms_management_engine4.1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.