Medium
Security advisory
foreman before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to an information leak through organizations and locations feature. When a user is assigned _no_ organizations/locations, they are able to view all resources instead of none (mirroring an administrator's view). The user's actions are still limited by their assigned permissions, e.g. to control viewing, editing and deletion.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7078
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
foreman before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to an information leak through organizations and locations feature. When a user is assigned _no_ organizations/locations, they are able to view all resources instead of none (mirroring an administrator's view). The user's actions are still limited by their assigned permissions, e.g. to control viewing, editing and deletion.
osv:CVE-2016-7078
Complete source record
{
"id": "d285edb7608006e402279765979f33597816b33e4ce50396a4d06fba985c39fb",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7078",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2016-7078",
"summary": "foreman before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to an information leak through organizations and locations feature. When a user is assigned _no_ organizations/locations, they are able to view all resources instead of none (mirroring an administrator's view). The user's actions are still limited by their assigned permissions, e.g. to control viewing, editing and deletion.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-7078",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2016-7078",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2016-7078"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/theforeman/foreman",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "c952c782adac290fd5a1145090380424665f5fe1"
},
{
"last_affected": "c952c782adac290fd5a1145090380424665f5fe1"
},
{
"fixed": "5f606e11cf39719bf62f8b1f3396861b32387905"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "1.15.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "1.15.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"range": [
{
"fixed": "5f606e11cf39719bf62f8b1f3396861b32387905"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"1.15.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7078.json"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-installer",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "69f9ea2eb63cd5f20406145d3994b4df6944dc42"
},
{
"last_affected": "69f9ea2eb63cd5f20406145d3994b4df6944dc42"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "1.15.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "1.15.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"1.15.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7078.json"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "752d8a1075a2db2853442e8fc6dd01f542dd9c3f"
},
{
"last_affected": "752d8a1075a2db2853442e8fc6dd01f542dd9c3f"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "1.15.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "1.15.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"1.15.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7078.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:49:24.568834331Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/5f606e11cf39719bf62f8b1f3396861b32387905",
"https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16982",
"https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/470",
"https://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-7078",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7078"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2016-7078",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 441684,
"published_at": "2018-09-10T15:29:04.28+00:00"
}