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CVE-2017-9268: open-build-service retrigger / wipebinaries hitting the wrong project bypassing access permissions

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

In the open build service before 201707022 the wipetrigger and rebuild actions checked the wrong project for permissions, allowing authenticated users to cause operations on projects where they did not have permissions leading to denial of service (resource consumption).

Affected products

• openSUSE Open Build Service: through 2.8.2

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045519
• https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/pull/3267
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045519
• https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/pull/3267

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