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CVE-2017-7543

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7543 is a race condition affecting OpenStack Neutron versions prior to 7.2.0-12.1, 8.3.0-11.1, 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.0.2-1.1, as well as related Red Hat products. This flaw, triggered during minor overcloud updates, disables Neutron security groups by resetting critical bridge-nf-call parameters to zero. With a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact by accessing exposed tenant VMs and network resources with high attack complexity. 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
>= 7.0.0, < 7.2.0-12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:neutron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.3.0-11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:neutron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0.0, < 9.3.1-2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:neutron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.2-1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:neutron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0185 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (11)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: neutronFixed in: 9.3.1-2.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: neutronFixed in: 10.0.2-1.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: neutronFixed in: 7.2.0-12.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: neutronFixed in: 8.3.0-11.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata)Fixed in: openstack-neutron-1:10.0.2-1.1.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-neutron-1:7.2.0-12.1.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: openstack-neutron-1:8.3.0-11.1.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: openstack-neutron-1:9.3.1-2.1.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-neutron-0:2014.2.3-42.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-neutron-0:2015.1.4-16.1.el7ost
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redhatworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-hvxr-2fvv-c3wqmedium

OpenStack Neutron Race Condition vulnerability

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-7543Important

openstack-neutron: iptables not active after update

Aug 8, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2447
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2448
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2449
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2450
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2451
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2452
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100237
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry