THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-14894
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-14894

Cloudforms Management Engine vulnerability

CVSS
8.0
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
A flaw was found in the CloudForms management engine version 5.10 and CloudForms management version 5.11, which triggered remote code execution through NFS schedule backup. An attacker logged into the management console could use this flaw to execute arbitrary shell commands on the CloudForms server as root.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Cloudforms Management Engine
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2020-06-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-14894

  • Confirm whether Redhat Cloudforms Management Engine is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-14894.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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