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CVE-2017-7530

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7530 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine versions before 5.7.3 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1. It allows authenticated API users to bypass privilege checks by invoking arbitrary methods through filtering on VMs, potentially leading to unauthorized actions like VM destruction. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 5.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.8.0, < 5.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 17,808 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-0:5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: ansible-0:2.3.0.0-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: ansible-tower-0:3.1.3-1.el7at
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.7.2-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.8.1.5-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7530Important

cfme: Execution of arbitrary methods through filter param

Aug 2, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1758
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100151
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry