What is CVE-2017-7535?

CVE-2017-7535 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Foreman, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-26.

How severe is CVE-2017-7535?

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

XSS in Foreman

CVE-2017-7535

foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts. Exploiting this requires a user to actively assign hosts to an organization that contains html in its name which is visible to the user prior to taking action.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-07-26 · 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: 0.015 (73.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Foreman — versions 1.16.0
Theforeman Foreman

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

projects.theforeman.org/issues/20963 (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99604 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/521 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7535?: CVE-2017-7535 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Foreman, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-26.
How severe is CVE-2017-7535?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.