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Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2017-2664 json

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1 lacks RBAC controls on certain methods in the rails application por…

published 2018-07-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11811

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1 lacks RBAC controls on certain methods in the rails application portion of CloudForms. An attacker with access could use a variety of methods within the rails application portion of CloudForms to escalate privileges.

Patch / fix

  • redhat cloudforms_management_engine 5.7.3, 5.8.1
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.7 5.7.4.2-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.7 5.7.4.2-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.7 5.7.4.2-1.el7cf
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri cloudforms managementengine 5.7 1.8.1-2.el7cf
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
  • ansible cloudforms managementengine 5.8 2.3.0.0-1.el7
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:3484RHSA-2017:1758

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-2017-2664 updated cvss 6.5

CloudForms: lack of RBAC on various methods in web UI

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.7 cfme 5.7.4.2-1.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.7.4.2-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.7.4.2-1.el7cf, rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.1-2.el7cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3484
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 cfme 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf, ansible 2.3.0.0-1.el7, cfme-gemset 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf, ansible-tower-setup 3.1.3-1.el7at, ansible-tower-server 3.1.3-1.el7at, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1758

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

1.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat CloudForms

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.