Issued:
2018-06-25
Updated:
2018-06-25

RHSA-2018:1972 - Important: Red Hat CloudForms security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat CloudForms security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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 (MVC) framework for web application development.

Security Fix(es):

  • python-paramiko: Authentication bypass in transport.py (CVE-2018-7750)

  • ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges (CVE-2018-1101)

  • ansible-tower: Remote code execution by users with access to define variables in job templates (CVE-2018-1104)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Simon Vikström for reporting CVE-2018-1104. The CVE-2018-1101 issue was discovered by Graham Mainwaring (Red Hat).

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat CloudForms4.5x86_64

Updated Packages

  • cfme-appliance-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • python-paramiko-2.1.1-4.el7.noarch.rpm
  • cfme-gemset-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • cfme-gemset-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.src.rpm
  • cfme-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.src.rpm
  • cfme-debuginfo-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-debuginfo-2.1.0-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • python-paramiko-doc-2.1.1-4.el7.noarch.rpm
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-doc-2.1.0-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • cfme-appliance-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.src.rpm
  • ansible-tower-server-3.1.7-1.el7at.x86_64.rpm
  • ansible-tower-setup-3.1.7-1.el7at.x86_64.rpm
  • cfme-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • ansible-2.4.4.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
  • cfme-appliance-debuginfo-5.8.4.5-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm
  • python-paramiko-2.1.1-4.el7.src.rpm
  • ansible-2.4.4.0-1.el7ae.src.rpm
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-2.1.0-1.el7cf.src.rpm
  • rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-2.1.0-1.el7cf.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information