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CVE-2017-7560

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7560 describes a vulnerability in Red Hat's rhnsd service where PID files are created with world-writable permissions, affecting the rhnsd product. This local vulnerability allows attackers to potentially cause a denial of service by filling disk space or terminating arbitrary processes. While rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5) due to its high impact on availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:rhnsd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/A:H

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
16.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0025 is in the 70th 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

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: rhnsd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rhnsd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rhnsd

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7560Low

rhnsd: World-writable PID files

Aug 22, 2017

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry