CVE-2017-12191 is a vulnerability in Red Hat Cloudforms
Published on February 28, 2018
A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC (VMWare Remote Console) functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms (and thus this account). An attacker could use this vulnerability to view and make changes to settings in the VMRC and virtual machines controlled by it that they should not have access to.
Weakness Type
What is an Authorization Vulnerability?
The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
CVE-2017-12191 has been classified to as an Authorization vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2017-12191
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Affected Versions
Red Hat, Inc. CloudForms Version Through 5.9 is affected by CVE-2017-12191Exploit Probability
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