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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-7535

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.

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CVE-2017-7535
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1 Nov 2026, 04:48 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-7535

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Jul 2018, 13:29 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7535",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-7535",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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      ],
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        },
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        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.290206397Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/20963",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7535"
      ],
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    },
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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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