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CVE-2017-15104

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15104 describes an access flaw in Heketi 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where the heketi.json configuration file was world-readable. This vulnerability, rated 7.8 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), allowed a local attacker to read plain-text passwords from the file, leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:heketi_project:heketi:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/heketi/heketiFixed in: 5.0.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: heketi-0:5.0.0-19.el7rhgs
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-q9vw-wr57-xjv3high

Information Exposure in Heketi

Feb 15, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-15104Low

heketi: Information disclosure through world readable file

Dec 18, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:3481
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2017-15104
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / heketi/heketi/releases/tag/v5.0.1
Release Notes