Cloudforms 3.1 Management EngineApplication · Redhat
CVE-2014-3692
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 customization template in Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Management Engine (CFME) 5.3 uses a default password for the root account when a password is not specified for a new image, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.
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 confidenceThe customization template in Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Management Engine 5.3 contains a hardcoded default password for the root account that is automatically applied when no explicit password is specified during image provisioning. This creates a static credentials vulnerability where any attacker aware of this default password can gain full root privileges to newly provisioned instances.
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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 3.1 Management EngineApplication
= 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
- Complete
- Integrity
- Complete
- Availability
- Complete
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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Verify CloudForms versionCheck the installed version of Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine by running 'rpm -q cfme' or accessing the About section in the management interfaceAffected if The installed version is exactly 5.3 of CloudForms 3.1 Management Engine
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Locate customization templatesNavigate to the CloudForms administrative interface, go to Infrastructure > Virtual Machines > Templates, or inspect the /var/www/miq/vmdb directory for template configuration filesAffected if Customization templates exist in the environment for image provisioning workflows
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Inspect template password configurationOpen each customization template and check whether an explicit root password is specified in the template settings, or whether the template relies on a default password behaviorAffected if Templates have no explicit password specified and instead rely on default password behavior during provisioning
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Audit provisioned imagesReview recently provisioned virtual machine instances to determine whether they were created using templates without explicit password configurationAffected if Virtual instances were provisioned from templates lacking explicit passwords and could be using the default credential
A system is affected if it runs CloudForms 3.1 Management Engine version 5.3 and uses customization templates that do not require an explicit root password during image provisioning.
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 dataImmediately change the default root password in all customization templates and ensure password specification is mandatory for all new image provisioning workflows. Apply any available vendor patches and audit existing provisioned images for unauthorized access.
Fix this in Cloudforms 3.1 Management Engine
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