CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12191

7.4 HIGH Published 2018-02-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-284, CWE-613

Description

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC (VMWare Remote Console) functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms (and thus this account). An attacker could use this vulnerability to view and make changes to settings in the VMRC and virtual machines controlled by it that they should not have access to.

Affected configurations

• redhat cloudforms 4.5

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References