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…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (66.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Foreman — versions 1.16.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

projects.theforeman.org/issues/20963 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
99604 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
[oss-security] 20170925 Foreman 1.1+ stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

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.