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CVE-2017-7470

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7470 is a critical authorization bypass vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) affecting Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk. It allows non-administrative or disabled users to execute administrative tasks due to an incorrect authorization check in the backend/server/rhnChannel.py component. This flaw has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, its critical severity warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spacewalk:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0215 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: spacewalk-backend-0:2.0.3-45.el6sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-backend-0:2.3.3-49.el6sat
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7470Moderate

spacewalk-backend: spacewalk-channel can be used by non-admin or disabled users for performing administrative tasks

May 18, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1259
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/98569
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry