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CVE-2017-15111

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15111 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting keycloak-httpd-client-install versions prior to 0.8. It allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by exploiting insecure temporary file creation through a symbolic link attack. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires local access and user privileges, with the primary impact being high integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:keycloak-httpd-client-install_project:keycloak-httpd-client-install:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: keycloak-httpd-client-installFixed in: 0.8
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: keycloak-httpd-client-install-0:0.8-1.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: keycloak-httpd-client-install
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)Fixed in: keycloak-httpd-client-install
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: keycloak-httpd-client-install

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-vqf9-v3hc-wr54medium

keycloak-httpd-client-install symlink attack vulnerability

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-15111Low

keycloak-httpd-client-install: unsafe /tmp log file in --log-file option in keycloak_cli.py

Jan 5, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2137
github.com / jdennis/keycloak-httpd-client-install/commit/07f26e213196936fb328ea0c1d5a66a09d8b5440
PatchVendor Advisory