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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-7040

CVE-2016-7040

Description

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.

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Affected products

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  • Red Hat/Cloudforms Management Engine2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 4.1

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