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medium 6.5

CVE-2017-2639 json

It was found that CloudForms does not verify that the server hostname matches the domain name in the certificate when using a custom CA and…

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11799

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was found that CloudForms does not verify that the server hostname matches the domain name in the certificate when using a custom CA and communicating with Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV) and OpenShift. This would allow an attacker to spoof RHEV or OpenShift systems and potentially harvest sensitive information from CloudForms.

Patch / fix

  • wmi cloudforms managementengine 5.8 1.3.14-7.el7cf
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.0.17-1.el7cf
  • smem cloudforms managementengine 5.8 1.4-1.el7cf
  • nginx cloudforms managementengine 5.8 1:1.10.2-1.el7at
  • erlang cloudforms managementengine 5.8 19.0.4-1.el7at
  • prince cloudforms managementengine 5.8 9.0r2-10.el7cf
  • ansible cloudforms managementengine 5.8 2.2.1.0-2.el7
  • sshpass cloudforms managementengine 5.8 1.06-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1367

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-2017-2639 updated cvss 6.5

CloudForms: cloudforms fails to properly check certificates when communicating with RHEV and OpenShift and custom CA

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 smem 1.4-1.el7cf, sshpass 1.06-1.el7, wmi 1.3.14-7.el7cf, nginx 1.10.2-1.el7at, ansible 2.2.1.0-2.el7, cfme 5.8.0.17-1.el7cf, +63 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1367

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

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] CloudForms

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

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.