Privilege escalation in CloudForms - CVE-2017-2664

 

Privilege escalation in CloudForms - CVE-2017-2664

Published: December 22, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9709
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-2664
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
CloudForms

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the targeted system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient role-based access control (RBAC) on certain methods within the rails application portion. A remote attacker can gain system privileges and conduct further attacks.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-2664

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources