What is CVE-2017-7463?

CVE-2017-7463 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Business-Central, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-7463?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Red Hat Business-Central

CVE-2017-7463

JBoss BRMS 6 and BPM Suite 6 before 6.4.3 are vulnerable to a reflected XSS via artifact upload. A malformed XML file, if uploaded, causes an error message to appear that includes part of the bad XML code verbatim without filtering out scripts. Successful exploitation would allow execution of script code within the context of the affected user.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-07-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Business-Central — versions 6.4.3
Red Hat Jboss Bpm Suite

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1217 (vendor-advisory, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1218 (vendor-advisory, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98385 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7463?: CVE-2017-7463 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Business-Central, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-7463?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.