Improper Permissions Control in CloudForms Allows Remote VM Execution

CVE-2016-7071 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

It was found that the CloudForms before 5.6.2.2, and 5.7.0.7 did not properly apply permissions controls to VM IDs passed by users. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary VMs on systems managed by CloudForms if they know the ID of the VM.

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