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CVE-2017-7470

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

It was found that spacewalk-channel can be used by a non-admin user or disabled users to perform administrative tasks due to an incorrect authorization check in backend/server/rhnChannel.py.

Affected products

• Red Hat Satellite 6: 5.6, 5.7
• spacewalkproject spacewalk: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98569
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1259
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7470
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98569
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1259
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7470

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