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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2020-14324 json

A high severity vulnerability was found in all active versions of Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0.

published 2020-08-11 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6474

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A high severity vulnerability was found in all active versions of Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0. The out of band OS command injection vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated attacker while setuping conversion host through Infrastructure Migration Solution. This flaw allows attacker to execute arbitrary commands on CloudForms server.

Patch / fix

  • redhat cloudforms_management_engine 5.11.7.0
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance-tools cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance-common cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:3574RHSA-2020:3358

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-2020-14324 updated cvss 9.1

CloudForms: Out-of-band OS Command Injection through conversion host

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.10 cfme 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf
    fixed: vendor fix “Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update as soon as possible.” RHSA-2020:3574
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.11 cfme 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf
    fixed: vendor fix “Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update as soon as possible.” RHSA-2020:3358
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.10 cfme-gemset 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-tools 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-common 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf, cfme-amazon-smartstate 5.10.16.0-1.el7cf Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.11 cfme-gemset 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf, cfme-appliance 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf, v2v-conversion-host 1.16.2-3.el8ev, cfme-appliance-tools 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf, cfme-appliance-common 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf, cfme-amazon-smartstate 5.11.7.3-1.el8cf, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present “Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update as soon as possible.”

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Exploit prediction

2.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a CloudForms

Classification

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

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.