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CVE-2014-7813 json

Red Hat CloudForms 3 Management Engine (CFME) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vec…

published 2017-10-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-7682

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat CloudForms 3 Management Engine (CFME) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving calls to the .to_sym rails function and lack of garbage collection of inserted symbols.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7813 updated cvss 4.0

CFME: rails .to_sym symbol DoS

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 cfme
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.