CVE-2017-7528 — Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerab

Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF Injection. It was found that X-Forwarded-For header allows internal servers to deploy other systems (using callback).

01What is this vulnerability?

Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF Injection. It was found that X-Forwarded-For header allows internal servers to deploy other systems (using callback).

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Ansible Tower	As shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5

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: 2018-08-22T16:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T16:04:11.874Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105143
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7528