CVE-2017-2664

CloudForms Management Engine (cfme) en versiones anteriores a la 5.7.3 y 5.8.x anteriores a la 5.8.1 carece de controles RBAC en determinados métodos en la parte de la aplicación rails de CloudForms. Un atacante con acceso podría utilizar una variedad de métodos en la parte de la aplicación rails de CloudForms para escalar privilegios.

CloudForms lacks RBAC controls on certain methods in the rails application portion of CloudForms. An attacker with access could use a variety of methods within the rails applications portion of CloudForms to escalate privileges.

Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically. Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.