Vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Tower

CVE-2017-7528

Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF Injection. It was found that X-Forwarded-For header allows internal servers to deploy other systems (using callback).

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (46.7th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 46.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2017-7528: held from 0.006 to 0.006.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7528?
CVE-2017-7528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Tower, classified under HTTP Response Splitting. CVSS score: 5.2/10. Published 2018-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-7528?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.2 out of 10.