Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine provides the insight, control, and
automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual
environments.
An input sanitization flaw was found in Red Hat CloudForms Management
Engine. A user with administrative access to Red Hat CloudForms Management
Engine could use this flaw to execute arbitrary Ruby code with root
privileges. (CVE-2013-4172)
This issue was discovered by James Laska of Red Hat.
This update also fixes several bugs and adds one enhancement. Documentation
for these changes will be available shortly from the CloudForms 2.0
Management Engine 5.1 Technical Notes, linked to in the References.
All users of Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine are advised to apply this
update, which corrects this issue, and fixes the bugs and adds the
enhancement noted in the Technical Notes. Refer to the Solution section of
this erratum for installation instructions.