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RHSA-2016:0426

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2016-03-09 20:20 - Updated: 2026-06-28 12:26

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: redhat-support-plugin-rhev security, bug fix and enhancement update

Severity

Important

Notes

Topic: Updated redhat-support-plugin-rhev packages that fix a security flaw and a bug are now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Details: The Red Hat Support plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers seamless integrated access to Red Hat subscription services from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization administration portal. The plug-in provides automated functionality that enables quicker help, answers, and proactive services. It offers easy and instant access to Red Hat exclusive knowledge, resources, engagement, and diagnostic features. It was found that redhat-support-plugin-rhev passed a user-specified path and file name directly to the command line in the log viewer component. This could allow users with the SuperUser role on any Entity to execute arbitrary commands on any host in the RHEV environment. (CVE-2015-7544) All Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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CVE-2015-7544

It was found that redhat-support-plugin-rhev passed a user-specified path and file name directly to the command line in the log viewer component. This could allow users with the SuperUser role on any Entity to execute arbitrary commands on any host in the RHEV environment.

6.6 ()


                
                  AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Affected products

Fixed 2 products

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: 6Server-RHEV-S-3.6:redhat-support-plugin-rhev-0:3.6.0-12.el6.noarch		—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 6Server-RHEV-S-3.6:redhat-support-plugin-rhev-0:3.6.0-12.el6.src		—	Vendor Fix fix

Threats

Impact Important

References

10 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0426	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classi…	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138310	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173074	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269588	external
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7544	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269588	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7544	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7544	external

Acknowledgments

Red Hat Alexander Wels

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CVE-2015-7544 (GCVE-0-2015-7544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51

Summary

redhat-support-plugin-rhev in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (aka RHEV Manager) before 3.6 allows remote authenticated users with the SuperUser role on any Entity to execute arbitrary commands on any host in the RHEV environment.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1021 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0426.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269588	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2015-10-07 00:00

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