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CVE-2018-10905 json

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) is vulnerable to an improper security setting in the dRuby component of CloudForms.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-2961

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) is vulnerable to an improper security setting in the dRuby component of CloudForms. An attacker with access to an unprivileged local shell could use this flaw to execute commands as a high privileged user.

Patch / fix

  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance-tools cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance-common cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf
  • cfme-amazon-smartstate cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf
  • rh-postgresql95-postgresql-pglogical cloudforms managementengine 5.9 2.1.0-4.el7cf
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-redhat_access_cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.9 2.0.3-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2561RHSA-2018:2745

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10905 updated cvss 7.8

cfme: Improper access control in dRuby allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as root

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 cfme 5.8.5.1-1.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.8.5.1-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.8.5.1-1.el7cf, ansible-tower-setup 3.1.8-1.el7at, ansible-tower-server 3.1.8-1.el7at, rh-postgresql95-postgresql-pglogical 1.2.1-2.el7cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2745
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.9 cfme 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-tools 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-common 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf, cfme-amazon-smartstate 5.9.4.7-1.el7cf, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2561

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

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] cfme

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

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