(RHSA-2018:1972) Important: Red Hat CloudForms security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development.

Security Fix(es):

• python-paramiko: Authentication bypass in transport.py (CVE-2018-7750)

• ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges (CVE-2018-1101)

• ansible-tower: Remote code execution by users with access to define variables in job templates (CVE-2018-1104)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Simon Vikström for reporting CVE-2018-1104. The CVE-2018-1101 issue was discovered by Graham Mainwaring (Red Hat).