VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7505

high
Published 2017-05-26 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Foreman since version 1.5 is vulnerable to an incorrect authorization check due to which users with user management permission who are assigned to some organization(s) can do all operations granted by these permissions on all administrator user object outside of their scope, such as editing global admin accounts including changing their passwords.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
theforemanforeman1.5.0
theforemanforeman1.5.1
theforemanforeman1.5.2
theforemanforeman1.5.3
theforemanforeman1.6.0
theforemanforeman1.6.1
theforemanforeman1.6.3
theforemanforeman1.7.0
theforemanforeman1.7.1
theforemanforeman1.7.2
theforemanforeman1.7.3
theforemanforeman1.7.4
theforemanforeman1.7.5
theforemanforeman1.8.0
theforemanforeman1.8.1
theforemanforeman1.8.2
theforemanforeman1.8.3
theforemanforeman1.8.4
theforemanforeman1.9.0
theforemanforeman1.9.1
theforemanforeman1.9.2
theforemanforeman1.9.3
theforemanforeman1.10.0
theforemanforeman1.10.1
theforemanforeman1.10.2
theforemanforeman1.10.3
theforemanforeman1.10.4
theforemanforeman1.11.0
theforemanforeman1.11.1
theforemanforeman1.11.2
theforemanforeman1.11.3
theforemanforeman1.11.4
theforemanforeman1.12.0
theforemanforeman1.12.1
theforemanforeman1.12.2
theforemanforeman1.12.3
theforemanforeman1.12.4
theforemanforeman1.13.0
theforemanforeman1.13.1
theforemanforeman1.13.2
theforemanforeman1.13.3
theforemanforeman1.13.4
theforemanforeman1.14.0
theforemanforeman1.14.1
theforemanforeman1.14.2
theforemanforeman1.14.3
theforemanforeman1.15.0

References

CWEs

CWE-863 CWE-269

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.