CVE-2015-5233

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.2 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Foreman before 1.8.4 and 1.9.x before 1.9.1 do not properly apply view_hosts permissions, which allows (1) remote authenticated users with the view_reports permission to read reports from arbitrary hosts or (2) remote authenticated users with the destroy_reports permission to delete reports from arbitrary hosts via direct access to the (a) individual report show/delete pages or (b) APIs.

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite 6: 6.1
foreman: through 1.8.3; 1.9.0

References

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/11579
http://theforeman.org/security.html#CVE-2015-5233:reportsshow/destroynotrestrictedbyhostauthorization
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2622
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/11579
http://theforeman.org/security.html#CVE-2015-5233:reportsshow/destroynotrestrictedbyhostauthorization
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2622

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