RHEL 7 : CFME 5.6.1 (RHSA-2016:1634)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210188

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:1634 advisory.

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that the CloudForms web UI did not properly filter input in certain fields. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system running CloudForms.
(CVE-2016-5383)

This issue was discovered by Eric Hayes (Red Hat).

Additional Changes:

This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210188

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-1634.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5383

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-appliance, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme-gemset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:google-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:google-compute-engine, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cfme

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5383

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2016:1634

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