CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1 lacks RBAC controls on certain methods in the rails application portion of CloudForms. An attacker with access could use a variety of methods within the rails application portion of CloudForms to escalate privileges.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudforms | Redhat | 4.2 (including) | 4.2 (including) |
| Cloudforms | Redhat | 4.6 (including) | 4.6 (including) |
| Cloudforms_management_engine | Redhat | * | 5.7.3 (excluding) |
| Cloudforms_management_engine | Redhat | 5.8 (including) | 5.8.1 (excluding) |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.7 | RedHat | cfme-0:5.7.4.2-1.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.7 | RedHat | cfme-appliance-0:5.7.4.2-1.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.7 | RedHat | cfme-gemset-0:5.7.4.2-1.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.7 | RedHat | rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.8.1-2.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 | RedHat | ansible-0:2.3.0.0-1.el7 | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 | RedHat | ansible-tower-0:3.1.3-1.el7at | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 | RedHat | cfme-0:5.8.1.5-1.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 | RedHat | cfme-appliance-0:5.8.1.5-1.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 | RedHat | cfme-gemset-0:5.8.1.5-1.el7cf | * |
| CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 | RedHat | rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.7.2-1.el7cf | * |
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: