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TI-2020-11196 Aliases CVE-2020-14325

Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0 was vulnerable to the User Impersonation authorization…

Priority MEDIUM 41Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

Red Hat CloudForms before 5.11.7.0 was vulnerable to the User Impersonation authorization flaw which allows malicious attacker to create existent and non-existent role-based access control user, with groups and roles. With a selected group of EvmGroup-super_administrator, an attacker can perform any API request as a super administrator.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01087 65th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 2 advisories

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—CloudFormscfme 5.11.7.0—No fix listedCNA
  • CloudForms Vendor— Affected cfme 5.11.7.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 5.11.7.0VulnerableRed Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 5.11.7.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat

Remediation

Red Hat 2 advisories

  • RHSA-2020:3574 Released 2020-08-27 · Red Hat rating Critical
    CloudForms 4.7.16 security, bug fix and enhancement update
    • CloudForms Management Engine 5.10 cfme-5.10.16.0-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-5.10.16.0-1.el7cf, cfme-appliance-common-5.10.16.0-1.el7cf +2
  • RHSA-2020:3358 Released 2020-08-06 · Red Hat rating Critical
    CloudForms 5.0.7 bug fix and enhancement update
    • CloudForms Management Engine 5.11 cfme-5.11.7.3-1.el8cf, cfme-gemset-5.11.7.3-1.el8cf

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Critical. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed RHSA-2020:3574
CloudForms Management Engine 5.11Fixed RHSA-2020:3358
Not affected: 2 products
  • CloudForms Management Engine 5.10
  • CloudForms Management Engine 5.11

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-14325

References

  • TI-2019-03828 Path traversal in Rails https://github.com/rails/rails KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2017-08592 The XML-RPC server in supervisor before 3.0.1, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, 3.2.x before 3.2.4… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2019-08480 jQuery before 3.4.0, as used in Drupal, Backdrop CMS, and other products, mishandles… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2018-05593 transport.py in the SSH server implementation of Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-02756 Path traversal in HackerOne Sprockets CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-00978 Improper input validation in postgresql CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
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