Critical: CloudForms 4.7.16 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

Critical: CloudForms 4.7.16 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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):

  • cfme: CloudForms: Out-of-band OS Command Injection through conversion host (CVE-2020-14324)
  • cfme-appliance: CloudForms: User Impersonation in the API for OIDC and SAML (CVE-2020-14325)
  • cfme-gemset: CloudForms: Business logic bypass through widgets (CVE-2020-10778)
  • cfme-gemset: CloudForms: Missing access control leads to escalation of admin group privileges (CVE-2020-10783)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 4.7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1811145 - When using advanced search by field custom attributes the ui remains unresponsive after presenting results
  • BZ - 1847628 - CVE-2020-10778 CloudForms: Business logic bypass through widgets
  • BZ - 1847811 - CVE-2020-10783 CloudForms: Missing access control leads to escalation of admin group privileges
  • BZ - 1855713 - CVE-2020-14324 CloudForms: Out-of-band OS Command Injection through conversion host
  • BZ - 1855739 - CVE-2020-14325 CloudForms: User Impersonation in the API for OIDC and SAML

CVEs

References