CVE-2017-7528 (GCVE-0-2017-7528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-22 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04
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Summary
Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF Injection. It was found that X-Forwarded-For header allows internal servers to deploy other systems (using callback).
Severity
5.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Ansible Tower Affected: As shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5
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Date Public
2018-08-22 00:00
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