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CVE-2017-7528

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7528 describes a CRLF Injection vulnerability in Ansible Tower, specifically when shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5. An attacker can exploit the X-Forwarded-For header to deploy other systems via internal server callbacks. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and can lead to high integrity impacts, but requires network access and no user interaction. 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:ansible_tower:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:cloudforms_management_engine:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.2MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: cfme

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7528Moderate

Tower: X-Forwarded-For header allows internal servers to deploy other systems (using callback)

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105143
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry