CVE-2017-7528 Other in Ansible Tower

Medium 5.2 Published Updated

CRLF injection in Ansible Tower allows internal servers to deploy other systems via the X-Forwarded-For header, potentially leading to unauthorized control.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2017-7528?

CVE-2017-7528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 22 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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).

Weakness: CWE-93, CWE-113

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7528?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Redhat Ansible Tower, Redhat Cloudforms Management Engine.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7528?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-7528 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-7528 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Ansible Tower vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-qh6h-825q-q4mx.

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