foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts.

Published 8 y ago 2018-07-26 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.1

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.5%

percentile 74%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.49% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	6.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
CNA	3.0	6.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
NVD	3.0	6.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
NVD	2.0	4.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected products

Foreman foreman

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

projects.theforeman.org /issues/20963 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/99604 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
seclists.org /oss-sec/2017/q3/521 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7535 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-7535
NVD: CVE-2017-7535

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