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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2017-7514 json

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in how the failed action entry is processed in Red Hat Satellite before version 5.8.0.

published 2018-07-30 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16531

cvss
4.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in how the failed action entry is processed in Red Hat Satellite before version 5.8.0. A user able to specify a failed action could exploit this flaw to perform XSS attacks against other Satellite users.

Patch / fix

  • redhat satellite 5.8.0
  • dwr network satellite 5.8 3.0rc2-7.el6sat
  • c3p0 network satellite 5.8 0.9.1.2-2.ep5.el6
  • dojo network satellite 5.8 1.6.1-1.el6sat
  • jdom network satellite 5.8 1.1.1-1.el6
  • jpam network satellite 5.8 0.4-28.el6sat
  • osad network satellite 5.8 5.11.63-11.el6sat
  • udns network satellite 5.8 0.1-1.el6sat
  • antlr network satellite 5.8 2.7.7-7.ep5.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1558

  • nutch Manager Server 3.0 1.0-0.9.5.4
  • spacecmd Manager Server 3.0 2.5.5.9-16.9.4
  • spacewalk Manager Server 3.0 2.5.0.7-4.6.4
  • susemanager Manager Server 3.0 3.0.24-25.6.4
  • spacewalk-web Manager Server 3.0 2.5.7.19-25.9.4
  • spacewalk-java Manager Server 3.0 2.5.59.18-27.9.4
  • susemanager-sls Manager Server 3.0 0.1.24-27.9.4
  • spacewalk-backend Manager Server 3.0 2.5.24.14-26.11.4

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2964-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7514 updated cvss 4.3

SAT 5 XSS in the Failed Systems page

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.8 (RHEL v.6) jdom 1.1.1-1.el6, udns 0.1-1.el6sat, jpam 0.4-28.el6sat, dojo 1.6.1-1.el6sat, dwr 3.0rc2-7.el6sat, roboto 1.3-1.el6sat, +154 more Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELS (RHEL v.6) jdom 1.1.1-1.el6, udns 0.1-1.el6sat, jpam 0.4-28.el6sat, dojo 1.6.1-1.el6sat, dwr 3.0rc2-7.el6sat, roboto 1.3-1.el6sat, +154 more Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.8 (RHEL v.6) rh-postgresql95 2.2-3.el6, perl-Filesys-Df 0.92-8.el6sat, spacewalk-web 2.5.2-11.el6sat, perl-Params-Validate 0.92-3.el6, satellite-repo 5.8.0.2-2.el6sat, spacewalk-dobby 2.5.2-11.el6sat, +9 more Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.8 ELS (RHEL v.6) rh-postgresql95 2.2-3.el6, perl-Filesys-Df 0.92-8.el6sat, spacewalk-web 2.5.2-11.el6sat, perl-Params-Validate 0.92-3.el6, satellite-repo 5.8.0.2-2.el6sat, spacewalk-dobby 2.5.2-11.el6sat, +9 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1558

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Exploit prediction

0.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.