CVE-2017-7517 Information disclosure in Hawkular Metrics
Attackers can access metrics from deleted OpenShift projects by recreating them with the same name, exposing sensitive historical data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-7517?
CVE-2017-7517 is a low-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openshift, published on 17 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
An input validation vulnerability exists in Openshift Enterprise due to a 1:1 mapping of tenants in Hawkular Metrics and projects/namespaces in OpenShift. If a user creates a project called "MyProject", and then later deletes it another user can then create a project called "MyProject" and access the metrics stored from the original "MyProject" instance.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7517?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Openshift.
How do I fix CVE-2017-7517?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-7517 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-7517 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7517 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openshift
Sources
Also known as GHSA-946m-r2cc-x4j3.