Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12191 - Improper Access Control vulnerability in Redhat Cloudforms 4.5

047910
CVSS 7.4 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
LOW
network
low complexity
redhat
CWE-284

Summary

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC (VMWare Remote Console) functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms (and thus this account). An attacker could use this vulnerability to view and make changes to settings in the VMRC and virtual machines controlled by it that they should not have access to.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Redhat
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Signature Spoofing by Key Theft
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by theft and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2018:0374
rpms
  • ansible-0:2.4.3.0-1.el7ae
  • ansible-tower-server-0:3.1.5-3.el7at
  • ansible-tower-setup-0:3.1.5-3.el7at
  • cfme-0:5.8.3.4-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance-0:5.8.3.4-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance-debuginfo-0:5.8.3.4-1.el7cf
  • cfme-debuginfo-0:5.8.3.4-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset-0:5.8.3.4-1.el7cf
  • postgresql94-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-contrib-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-debuginfo-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-devel-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-docs-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-libs-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-plperl-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-plpython-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-pltcl-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-server-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • postgresql94-test-0:9.4.15-3PGDG.el7at
  • python-crypto-debuginfo-0:2.6.1-16.el7at
  • python-paramiko-0:2.1.1-2.el7ae
  • python-paramiko-doc-0:2.1.1-2.el7ae
  • python2-crypto-0:2.6.1-16.el7at
  • python2-jmespath-0:0.9.0-4.el7ae