Bug 1340763 (CVE-2016-4471) - CVE-2016-4471 cfme: Privilege escalation causing arbitrary code execution
Summary: CVE-2016-4471 cfme: Privilege escalation causing arbitrary code execution
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-4471
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1353731
Blocks: 1340766
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Reported: 2016-05-30 09:14 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-12 21:25:00 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-05-30 09:14:22 UTC 
It was found that attacker having the access to appliance filesystem is able to execute arbitrary code under the same privileges as appliance runs. This issue is present since upstream commit f077196c99feb874e5cba8b93c1f8dfe26421c1b.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/pull/7856
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-05-30 09:47:39 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Simon Lukasik (Red Hat)
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2016-08-12 21:25:00 UTC 
This issue was fixed in CloudForms 4.1 in erratum RHBA-2016:1348.
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