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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2017-2632 json

A logic error in valid_role() in CloudForms role validation before 5.7.1.3 could allow a tenant administrator to create groups with a highe…

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11793

cvss
4.9
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A logic error in valid_role() in CloudForms role validation before 5.7.1.3 could allow a tenant administrator to create groups with a higher privilege level than the tenant administrator should have. This would allow an attacker with tenant administration access to elevate privileges.

Patch / fix

  • redhat cloudforms_management_engine 5.7.1.3
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.7 5.7.1.3-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.7 5.7.1.3-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.7 5.7.1.3-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0320

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-2017-2632 updated cvss 4.9

cfme: tenant administrator can create a group with higher permissions

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.7 cfme 5.7.1.3-1.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.7.1.3-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.7.1.3-1.el7cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0320

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

1.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 4.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.0 4.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 cfme

Classification

Weakness

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.