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CVE-2017-7538

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7538 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Red Hat Satellite 5, specifically affecting versions prior to 5.8. An authenticated attacker with privileges to modify an organization's name could inject malicious scripts, leading to XSS attacks against other Satellite users. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.4) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially resulting in limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.5LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0075 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 15,225 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELSFixed in: spacewalk-schema-0:2.5.1-50.el6sat
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: satellite-schema-0:5.8.0.33-1.el6sat
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: spacewalk-backend-0:2.5.3-151.el6sat
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.5.14-95.el6sat
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: spacewalk-schema-0:2.5.1-50.el6sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELSFixed in: satellite-schema-0:5.8.0.33-1.el6sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELSFixed in: spacewalk-backend-0:2.5.3-151.el6sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELSFixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.5.14-95.el6sat
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7538Moderate

5: organization name allows XSS

Jul 14, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2645
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1039267
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry