CVE-2014-0087: Red Hat Cloudforms Management Engine

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The check_privileges method in vmdb/app/controllers/application_controller.rb in ManageIQ, as used in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine (CFME), allows remote authenticated users to bypass authorization and gain privileges by leveraging improper RBAC checking, related to the rbac_user_edit action.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Cloudforms Management Engine: before 5.3 (fixed in 5.3)

Published 2018-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.