Padding oracle flaw in CloudForms Management Engine (aka CFME) 5 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• redhat cloudforms management engine5.0

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2013-2068Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the AgentController in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 2.0 allow remote attackers to cr
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• CVE-2020-14324A high severity vulnerability was found in all active versions of Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0.
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• CVE-2014-8164A insecure configuration for certificate verification (http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE) may lead to verification bypass in Red
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• CVE-2016-7071It 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.
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• CVE-2014-0087The check_privileges method in vmdb/app/controllers/application_controller.rb in ManageIQ, as used in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine (
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• CVE-2016-7040Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1 does not properly handle regular expressions passed to the expression engine via the JSON API and t
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.