Vulnerability record · CVE-2016-7040 · published 7 October 2016

CVE-2016-7040: Redhat cloudforms management engine improper access control vulnerability

Redhat · Cloudforms Management Engine

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.

8.8 CVSS 3.0 High EPSS 2.3% · top 17.7% CWE-284 · Improper access control

8.8CVSS 3.0 base score, v2 9.0

2.3%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

4References

17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Cloudforms Management Engine Redhat

References

Link	Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html	MitigationVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1996.html	MitigationVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93893

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2016-7040), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.