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.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudforms_management_engine | Redhat | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: