A flaw was found in the CloudForms API before 5.6.3.0, 5.7.3.1 and 5.8.1.2.

Affected versions

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

• redhat cloudforms4.2
• redhat cloudforms4.5
• redhat cloudforms management engine5.6 and later · before 5.6.3.0
• redhat cloudforms management engine5.7 and later · before 5.7.3.1
• redhat cloudforms management engine5.8 and later · before 5.8.1.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Red Hat cfme

  • 5.8.1.2, 5.7.3.1, 5.6.3.0affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2018-3760There is an information leak vulnerability in Sprockets.
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• CVE-2016-5402A code injection flaw was found in the way capacity and utilization imported control files are processed.
  37Monitor
• CVE-2020-14325Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0 was vulnerable to the User Impersonation authorization flaw which allows malicious attacker to create exi
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• CVE-2017-7530In CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1, it was found that privilege check is missing when invoking arbit
  36Monitor
• CVE-2016-4471ManageIQ in CloudForms before 4.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code.
  36Monitor
• CVE-2016-5383The web UI in Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving "Lack of field filter
  36Monitor

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.