(RHSA-2017:3484) Important: Red Hat CloudForms security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

CloudForms Management Engine Appliance.

CloudForms Management Engine Gemset.

Security Fix(es):

• CloudForms lacks RBAC controls on certain methods in the rails application portion of CloudForms. An attacker with access could use a variety of methods within the rails applications portion of CloudForms to escalate privileges. (CVE-2017-2664)

This issue was discovered by Libor Pichler (Red Hat) and Martin Povolny (Red Hat).

Additional Changes:

This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.