CVE-2016-7071: Red Hat Cloudforms

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that the CloudForms before 5.6.2.2, and 5.7.0.7 did not properly apply permissions controls to VM IDs passed by users. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary VMs on systems managed by CloudForms if they know the ID of the VM.

Affected products

• Red Hat Cloudforms: version 4.1 only
• Red Hat Cloudforms Management Engine: before 5.6.2.2 (fixed in 5.6.2.2); from 5.7.0.0, before 5.7.0.7 (fixed in 5.7.0.7)

Published 2018-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.