CVE-2019-14894 is a vulnerability in Red Hat Cloudforms Management Engine
Published on June 22, 2020
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2019-14894 is exploitable with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Types
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
What is a Shell injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2019-14894 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
[UNKNOWN] CloudForms:- Version 5.10 is affected.
- Version 5.11 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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