Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2016-7078 is an information exposure issue in Foreman. An authenticated user with no assigned organizations or locations could see resources across all organizations and locations, similar to an administrator’s view. The sources say actions remained limited by the user’s permissions, so the main business risk is unintended visibility, not full takeover. Exposure is most likely in Foreman deployments before 1.15.0 that use organizations and locations and have authenticated users with no assigned organization/location scope. The provided affected metadata is limited, so validate against vendor advisory and local version history. Treat as a moderate-priority access control cleanup. It can expose operational inventory or tenant-like resource data, but available sources do not show active exploitation or privilege escalation beyond existing permissions. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Foreman to version 1.15.0 or later.; Review the Foreman security advisory and linked fixing commit.; Audit users with no organization or location assignments..
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 4.3 (3.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N2.81.4Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
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4.3MediumVector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/5f606e11cf39719bf62f8b1f3396861b32387905CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7078CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-7078CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16982CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- [oss-security] 20170222 CVE-2016-7078: Foreman organization/location authorization vulnerabilityCVE reference · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
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