CVE-2017-7528
Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF...
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).
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
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).
- Record
CVE-2017-7528- CVSS 3.0
- 5.2 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-113
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-16544
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).
- Record
EUVD-2017-16544- CVSS 3.0
- 5.2 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-qh6h-825q-q4mx
Ansible Tower as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 is vulnerable to CRLF...
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).
- Record
GHSA-qh6h-825q-q4mx- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-93
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
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).
- Record
CVE-2017-7528- CVSS 3.0
- 5.2 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N - CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.3 Low
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-113, CWE-93
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-7528 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.2) in Red Hat Ansible Tower, published August 22, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.60%, the 48th percentile. No source names a fixed version.