CVE-2014-7813

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-11-06
CWE:
CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1157872: CVE-2014-7813 CFME: rails .to_sym symbol DoS

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Red Hat CloudForms 3 Management Engine (CFME) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving calls to the .to_sym rails function and lack of garbage collection of inserted symbols.

Find out more about CVE-2014-7813 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of cfme as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Aaron Patterson of the Red CloudForms Team.

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