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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-5402 json

A code injection flaw was found in the way capacity and utilization imported control files are processed.

published 2018-10-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6347

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.9%
EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A code injection flaw was found in the way capacity and utilization imported control files are processed. A remote, authenticated attacker with access to the capacity and utilization feature could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user CFME runs as.

Patch / fix

  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.6 5.6.3.3-1.el7cf
  • freeipmi cloudforms managementengine 5.6 1.5.1-2.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.6 5.6.3.3-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.6 5.6.3.3-1.el7cf
  • freeipmi-ipmiseld cloudforms managementengine 5.6 1.5.1-2.el7cf
  • freeipmi-ipmidetectd cloudforms managementengine 5.6 1.5.1-2.el7cf
  • freeipmi-bmc-watchdog cloudforms managementengine 5.6 1.5.1-2.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2839

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-2016-5402 updated cvss 8.8

cfme: RCE via Capacity & Utilization feature

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.6 cfme 5.6.3.3-1.el7cf, freeipmi 1.5.1-2.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.6.3.3-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.6.3.3-1.el7cf, freeipmi-ipmiseld 1.5.1-2.el7cf, freeipmi-ipmidetectd 1.5.1-2.el7cf, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2839

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

5.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] cfme

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns 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.