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CVE-2017-15125 json

A flaw was found in CloudForms before 5.9.0.22 in the self-service UI snapshot feature where the name field is not properly sanitized for H…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-6586

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in CloudForms before 5.9.0.22 in the self-service UI snapshot feature where the name field is not properly sanitized for HTML and JavaScript input. An attacker could use this flaw to execute a stored XSS attack on an application administrator using CloudForms. Please note that CSP (Content Security Policy) prevents exploitation of this XSS however not all browsers support CSP.

Patch / fix

  • redhat cloudforms_management_engine 5.9.0.22
  • wmi cloudforms managementengine 5.9 1.3.14-7.el7cf
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.9 5.9.0.22-1.el7cf
  • smem cloudforms managementengine 5.9 1.4-1.el7cf
  • nginx cloudforms managementengine 5.9 1:1.10.2-1.el7at
  • erlang cloudforms managementengine 5.9 19.0.4-1.el7at
  • prince cloudforms managementengine 5.9 9.0r2-10.el7cf
  • ansible cloudforms managementengine 5.9 2.4.3.0-1.el7ae
  • freeipmi cloudforms managementengine 5.9 1.5.1-2.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:0380

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15125 updated cvss 6.5

cloudforms: XSS in self-service UI snapshot feature

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.9 smem 1.4-1.el7cf, wmi 1.3.14-7.el7cf, nginx 1.10.2-1.el7at, cfme 5.9.0.22-1.el7cf, dumb-init 1.2.0-1.el7, erlang 19.0.4-1.el7at, +69 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0380

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat cloudforms

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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