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CVE-2017-7535

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7535 describes a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Foreman versions prior to 1.16.0, specifically affecting the assignment of organizations/locations to hosts. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires a user to actively assign hosts to an organization with HTML in its name, which must be visible to the user before the action. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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 redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: foreman
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3Fixed in: foreman

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7535Moderate

foreman: XSS in the manage organization page

Jul 12, 2017

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2017/q3/521
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
projects.theforeman.org / issues/20963
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/99604
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry