Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Red Hat CloudForms 5.x may have been configured to skip TLS certificate checks. That can let an attacker impersonate trusted services if they can intercept traffic. The source bundle does not provide CVSS, a named patch, or evidence of active exploitation.
Executive priority
Prioritize review if CloudForms 5.x is still in use, especially in environments handling privileged infrastructure management. This is not documented as actively exploited in the supplied sources, but disabled certificate checks can undermine trust boundaries.
Technical view
CVE-2014-8164 is a CWE-295 certificate validation issue in Red Hat CloudForms 5.x. The cited condition is http.verify_mode set to OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE, which disables certificate verification and can allow verification bypass. Available details are sparse.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited, based on the sources, to environments running Red Hat CloudForms 5.x with the insecure certificate verification configuration present.
Exploitation context
The provided sources do not show CISA KEV listing, active exploitation, public exploit activity, or a CVSS score. Practical risk depends on affected traffic paths and whether an attacker can intercept or influence TLS connections.
Researcher notes
The source record is sparse: no CVSS vector, no patch reference, and only Red Hat CloudForms 5.x is named. Avoid broad product assumptions. Focus validation on certificate verification behavior and vendor-confirmed remediation.
Mitigation direction
- Identify all Red Hat CloudForms 5.x deployments and responsible owners.
- Review Red Hat Bugzilla and vendor guidance for fixed builds or configuration guidance.
- Correct configurations that disable TLS certificate verification where vendor guidance permits.
- Confirm current support status and upgrade options with Red Hat.
- Monitor network paths where CloudForms communicates with external or internal services.
Validation and detection
- Inventory CloudForms versions and confirm whether any 5.x instances remain.
- Review relevant configuration for certificate verification disabled with VERIFY_NONE.
- Check change history for prior manual TLS verification bypasses.
- Validate that outbound TLS connections reject untrusted certificates.
- Document findings, compensating controls, and vendor guidance followed.
Public sources used
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- CVSS
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- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151208CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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CWE details
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Improper Certificate Validation
Improper Certificate Validation represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.