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high 8.8

CVE-2016-7071 json

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.

published 2018-09-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7951

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • redhat cloudforms_management_engine 5.6.2.2, 5.7.0.7
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.6 5.6.2.2-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.6 5.6.2.2-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.6 5.6.2.2-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2091

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-2016-7071 updated cvss 8.8

CFME: bypass authorization by altering VM ID

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.6 cfme 5.6.2.2-1.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.6.2.2-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.6.2.2-1.el7cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2091

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

2.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Red Hat CFME

Classification

Weakness

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.