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CVE-2017-7505

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

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.

Affected products

• foreman: 1.5.0, 1.5.0-rc1, 1.5.0-rc2, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3 (+69)

References

• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19612
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98607
• https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4545
• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19612
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98607
• https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4545

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