A high severity vulnerability was found in all active versions of Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0. The out of band OS command injection vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated attacker while setuping conversion host through Infrastructure Migration Solution. This flaw allows attacker to execute arbitrary commands on CloudForms server.

A flaw was found in the CloudForms management engine version 5.10 and CloudForms management version 5.11, which triggered remote code execution through NFS schedule backup. An attacker logged into the management console could use this flaw to execute arbitrary shell commands on the CloudForms server as root.

Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 and 5 was vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) flaw. With the access to add Ansible Tower provider, an attacker could scan and attack systems from the internal network which are not normally accessible.

Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag nolog set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors. This would discloses and collects any sensitive data.

CFME (CloudForms Management Engine) 5: RHN account information is logged to topoutput.log during registration

CFME: CSRF protection vulnerability via permissive check of the referrer header

A vulnerability has been found in nxosfilecopy from Ansible module. Filenames are used to perform actions to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. However, nxosfilecopy takes remotefile parameter which is used for destination. Malicious code could crafts the filename parameter to take advantage by performing an OS command injection.

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in the PDF export component of CloudForms, versions 5.9 and 5.10, due to user input is not properly sanitized. An attacker with least privilege to edit compute is able to execute a XSS attack against other users, which could lead to malicious code execution and extraction of the anti-CSRF token of higher privileged users.

A flaw was found in the CloudForms web interface, versions 5.8 - 5.10, where the RSS feed URLs are not properly restricted to authenticated users only. An attacker could use this flaw to view potentially sensitive information from CloudForms including data such as newly created virtual machines.

A code injection flaw was found in the way capacity and utilization imported control files are processed. A remote, authenticated attacker with access to the capacity and utilization feature could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user CFME runs as.

It was found that the CloudForms before 5.6.2.2, and 5.7.0.7 did not properly apply permissions controls to VM IDs passed by users. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary VMs on systems managed by CloudForms if they know the ID of the VM.

A logic error in validrole() in CloudForms role validation before 5.7.1.3 could allow a tenant administrator to create groups with a higher privilege level than the tenant administrator should have. This would allow an attacker with tenant administration access to elevate privileges.

It was found that CloudForms does not verify that the server hostname matches the domain name in the certificate when using a custom CA and communicating with Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV) and OpenShift. This would allow an attacker to spoof RHEV or OpenShift systems and potentially harvest sensitive information from CloudForms.

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) is vulnerable to an improper security setting in the dRuby component of CloudForms. An attacker with access to an unprivileged local shell could use this flaw to execute commands as a high privileged user.

A flaw was found in CloudForms's v2v infrastructure mapping delete feature. A stored cross-site scripting in CloudForms 5.9.3.1 build due to improper sanitization of user input in Name field.

A flaw was found in CloudForms's v2v infrastructure mapping delete feature. A stored cross-site scripting in CloudForms 5.9.3.1 build due to improper sanitization of user input in Name field.

A cross-site script vulnerability was found in CloudForms 5.9.0.10 self-service UI snapshot feature.

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.

A number of unused delete routes are present in CloudForms before 5.7.2.1 which can be accessed via GET requests instead of just POST requests. This could allow an attacker to bypass the protectfromforgery XSRF protection causing the routes to be used. This attack would require additional cross-site scripting or similar attacks in order to execute.

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.

A flaw was found in the CloudForms API before 5.6.3.0, 5.7.3.1 and 5.8.1.2. A user with permissions to use the MiqReportResults capability within the API could potentially view data from other tenants or groups to which they should not have access.

CloudForms Management Engine before 5.8 includes a default SSL/TLS certificate.

Šimon Lukašík of Red Hat reports:

CloudForms ships a default encryption certificate and key for the web interface.

Internally CFME uses AES-256-CBC encryption to encrypt important data before it is saved in the database. This encryption mode is vulnerable to padding oracle attack and CFME does allow attacker to submit forged ciphertexts for encryption and observe the result.

It is reported that CloudForms fails to protect potentially sensitive data stored in the backend PostgreSQL database. This is due to encrypted data being decrypted and then stashed in data structures which may be inadvertently exposed (e.g. through database log files).

An XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw was found in Nokogiri, a Ruby gem for parsing HTML, XML, and SAX. Using external XML entities, a remote attacker could specify a URL in a specially crafted XML that, when parsed, would cause a connection to that URL to be opened.

A patch shipped with the 1.5.4 release of Nokogiri provided a "nonet" option to disable external connections. However, local file URLs could still be used to exploit this flaw. The 1.6.4 release of Nokogiri fixed this issue by using libxml2 2.9.0.

Additional information is detailed at:

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693#issuecomment-68334768

CVE request and assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/57

Aaron Patterson of Red Hat reports:

There are a number of locations in the code where .tosym is called on user supplied code, resulting in a potential DoS condition as an attacker can insert symbols that are never garbage collected.

The (1) get and (2) log methods in the AgentController in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) 5.x allow remote attackers to insert arbitrary text into log files via unspecified vectors.

A insecure configuration for certificate verification (http.verifymode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFYNONE) may lead to verification bypass in Red Hat CloudForms 5.x.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in application/panelcontrol in CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) before 5.2.4.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.