CVE-2016-7040: Red Hat Cloudforms Management Engine

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 4.1 does not properly handle regular expressions passed to the expression engine via the JSON API and the web-based UI, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary shell commands by leveraging the ability to view and filter collections.

Affected products

• Red Hat Cloudforms Management Engine: version 4.1 only

Published 2016-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.