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CVE-2017-2663 json

It was found that subscription-manager's DBus interface before 1.19.4 let unprivileged user access the com.redhat.RHSM1.Facts.GetFacts and…

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11810

cvss
8.2
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was found that subscription-manager's DBus interface before 1.19.4 let unprivileged user access the com.redhat.RHSM1.Facts.GetFacts and com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.Set methods. An unprivileged local attacker could use these methods to gain access to private information, or launch a privilege escalation attack.

Patch / fix

  • redhat subscription-manager 1.19.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-2663 updated cvss 8.2

subscription-manager: unsafe dbus interface

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 subscription-manager Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 subscription-manager, subscription-manager-gui, subscription-manager-firstboot, subscription-manager-migration, subscription-manager-plugin-container Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 rhsm-gtk, python-syspurpose, subscription-manager, subscription-manager-gui, subscription-manager-rhsm, subscription-manager-cockpit, +5 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Red Hat subscription-manager

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-270 Privilege Context Switching Error

References

Sources

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