Jan Rusnacko of the Red Hat Product Security Team reports: CFME fails to check if the current user is allowed to delete catalogs. Regular user with minimal privileges will not see Catalog menu, as role based check is performed in view (layouts/_page_header_navbar.html.haml): 45 -if role_allows(:feature => 'catalog',:any => true) 46 %li(class="#{secondary_nav_class('catalogs')}") 47 %a{:href=>'/catalog/explorer'}Catalogs In the context of running application: (rdb:1) User.current_user.name "testuser1" (rdb:1) role_allows(:feature => 'catalog',:any => true) false By POSTing a request and going through catalog IDs sequentially an attacker can delete all catalogs.
Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Jan Rusnacko of the Red Hat Product Security Team.
This issue has been addressed in following products: CloudForms Management Engine 5.x Via RHSA-2014:0469 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0469.html