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CVE-2017-12148

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12148 describes a critical flaw in Ansible Tower versions prior to 3.1.5 and 3.2.0, impacting both Ansible Tower and Red Hat CloudForms. This vulnerability allows an attacker with commit access to an upstream SCM repository to inject malicious git hooks into Tower projects that lack the "delete before update" flag. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary command and code execution with the privileges of the user running Tower. While rated as HIGH severity (CVSS 7.2) due to its network-based attack vector and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:scm_repositories:*:*:*
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.7
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 5,537 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 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 (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: supervisor-0:3.1.4-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: ansible-tower-0:3.1.5-1.el7at
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-0:5.8.2.3-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.8.2.3-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.8.2.3-1.el7cf
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rabbitmq-server-0:3.6.9-1.el7at
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.8Fixed in: rh-ruby23-rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.8.1-2.el7cf
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3Fixed in: security

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-12148Important

Tower: modification of git hooks in SCM repo via upstream playbook execution

Sep 19, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:3005
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory