Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF Injection.

Published 8 y ago 2018-08-22 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.2

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.6%

percentile 49%

Public exploits

none known

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).

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.60% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	5.2	`CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N`
CNA	3.0	5.2	`CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N`
NVD	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`
NVD	2.0	3.3	`AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible Tower

Classification

Weakness

CWE-113 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers
CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences

References

securityfocus.com /bid/105143 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7528 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-7528
NVD: CVE-2017-7528

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