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Fencer Vulns
high 8.0

CVE-2019-14894 json

A flaw was found in the CloudForms management engine version 5.10 and CloudForms management version 5.11, which triggered remote code execu…

published 2020-06-22 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-6000

cvss
8.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the CloudForms management engine version 5.10 and CloudForms management version 5.11, which triggered remote code execution through NFS schedule backup. An attacker logged into the management console could use this flaw to execute arbitrary shell commands on the CloudForms server as root.

Patch / fix

  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
  • cfme-appliance-tools cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
  • cfme-appliance-common cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
  • cfme-amazon-smartstate cloudforms managementengine 5.11 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:0588RHSA-2020:0589

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-2019-14894 updated cvss 8.0

CloudForms: RCE vulnerability in NFS schedule backup

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.10 cfme 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf, cfme-gemset 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-tools 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-common 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf, cfme-amazon-smartstate 5.10.15.1-1.el7cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0589
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.11 cfme 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf, cfme-gemset 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf, cfme-appliance 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf, cfme-appliance-tools 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf, cfme-appliance-common 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf, cfme-amazon-smartstate 5.11.3.1-1.el8cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0588

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

4.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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] CloudForms

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • 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.