Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-7530 json

In CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1, it was found that privilege check is missing when invoking arbi…

published 2018-07-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16546

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1, it was found that privilege check is missing when invoking arbitrary methods via filtering on VMs that MiqExpression will execute that is triggerable by API users. An attacker could use this to execute actions they should not be allowed to (e.g. destroying VMs).

Patch / fix

  • redhat cloudforms_management_engine 5.7.3, 5.8.1
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
  • ansible cloudforms managementengine 5.8 2.3.0.0-1.el7
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.8 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
  • ansible-tower-setup cloudforms managementengine 5.8 3.1.3-1.el7at
  • ansible-tower-server cloudforms managementengine 5.8 3.1.3-1.el7at
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri cloudforms managementengine 5.8 1.7.2-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1758

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-2017-7530 updated cvss 8.8

cfme: Execution of arbitrary methods through filter param

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.8 cfme 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf, ansible 2.3.0.0-1.el7, cfme-gemset 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.8.1.5-1.el7cf, ansible-tower-setup 3.1.3-1.el7at, ansible-tower-server 3.1.3-1.el7at, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1758

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

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% 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 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.