CVE-2017-7517 — An input validation vulnerability exists in Openshift Enterprise due to a 1:1 ma

An input validation vulnerability exists in Openshift Enterprise due to a 1:1 mapping of tenants in Hawkular Metrics and projects/namespaces in OpenShift. If a user creates a project called "MyProject", and then later deletes it another user can then create a project ca

01What is this vulnerability?

An input validation vulnerability exists in Openshift Enterprise due to a 1:1 mapping of tenants in Hawkular Metrics and projects/namespaces in OpenShift. If a user creates a project called "MyProject", and then later deletes it another user can then create a project called "MyProject" and access the metrics stored from the original "MyProject" instance.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Hawkular Metrics	Hawkular Metrics as shipped in Red Hat Openshift 3.x

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-13T20:43:30.312Z

09References

• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470414
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7517