Cloudforms 3.0 Management EngineApplication · Redhat
CVE-2014-0136
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe (1) get and (2) log methods in the AgentController in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) 5.x allow remote attackers to insert arbitrary text into log files via unspecified vectors.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThis is a log injection vulnerability in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine 5.x where the get and log methods in the AgentController allow remote attackers to insert arbitrary text into log files. This could enable log poisoning attacks where malicious content is written to logs, potentially leading to further exploitation if logs are parsed by other systems.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Cloudforms 3.0 Management EngineApplication
<= 5.2.5.3CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine is installedCheck for the presence of CloudForms by looking for its installation directory, service processes, or checking the product version via the management interface or rpm/package queryAffected if The product CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine is found running on the system
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Determine the installed version of CloudForms Management EngineRun 'rpm -q cfme' or check the version through the CloudForms administration interface under the About sectionAffected if The installed version is 5.2.5.3 or earlier (any version <= 5.2.5.3)
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Verify the AgentController is accessibleCheck if the /agent_controller or similar AgentController endpoint is exposed in the web application's routing configuration or accessible via the web interfaceAffected if The AgentController endpoints (get and log methods) are accessible via the web interface
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Confirm logging is enabled for the AgentControllerReview the CloudForms configuration files (typically in /var/www/miq/vmdb/config/) and verify that logging is active for the AgentController class and its get/log methodsAffected if Logging is enabled and active for the AgentController, allowing log entries to be written
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Inspect logs for evidence of injection attemptsExamine CloudForms application logs (typically in /var/www/miq/vmdb/log/) for unusual patterns, multiple newline characters, or suspicious text that could indicate log injection has occurredAffected if Log files contain unexpected content with injected characters, particularly newline sequences or crafted strings that were not generated by the application itself
A system is affected if it runs Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine version 5.2.5.3 or earlier with the AgentController accessible and logging enabled.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade to a patched version of CloudForms Management Engine. If upgrade is not immediately possible, implement input validation and sanitization on the get and log methods in the AgentController to prevent arbitrary text injection into log files.
Fix this in Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine
Scoped from the published advisory
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2014-0136 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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