Moderate: CloudForms 4.6.8 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-11627   CVE-2018-11627   CVE-2018-11627  

Synopsis

Moderate: CloudForms 4.6.8 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

  • rubygem-sinatra: XSS in the 400 Bad Request page (CVE-2018-11627)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

This update fixes various bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat CloudForms 4.6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1585218 - CVE-2018-11627 rubygem-sinatra: XSS in the 400 Bad Request page
  • BZ - 1641669 - 404 Not Found: When dialog submitted via custom button from datastore object with method and dialog both attached
  • BZ - 1641812 - Retirement Requester not populated after retirement
  • BZ - 1650152 - [RFE] Unable to use AWS tags as RHV tags
  • BZ - 1658480 - Instance evacuation error
  • BZ - 1665284 - Tagging: Unable to edit tag from container provider page
  • BZ - 1667948 - Dynamic drop down code is being executed everytime a service request is opened for review and executed again on approval
  • BZ - 1668847 - Events from OpenStack are delivered in wrong order which causes miss of certain events
  • BZ - 1669627 - SmartState Analysis fails on VMware Vsphere 6.7
  • BZ - 1670202 - The event_streams table does not get auto-vacuumed

CVEs

References