Medium
Security advisory
foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts. Exploiting this requires a user to actively assign hosts to an organization that contains html in its name which is visible to the user prior to taking action.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7535
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts. Exploiting this requires a user to actively assign hosts to an organization that contains html in its name which is visible to the user prior to taking action.
osv:CVE-2017-7535
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.290206397Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/20963",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430644,
"published_at": "2018-07-26T13:29:00.293+00:00"
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