CVE-2014-3486: Red Hat Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) shell_exec function in lib/util/MiqSshUtilV1.rb and (2) temp_cmd_file function in lib/util/MiqSshUtilV2.rb in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) before 5.2.4.2 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name.

Affected products

• Red Hat Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine: up to and including 5.2.4; version 5.2 only; version 5.2.1 only; version 5.2.1.6 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2.3 only; …

Published 2014-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.