CVE-2017-7505: Theforeman Foreman

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Foreman since version 1.5 is vulnerable to an incorrect authorization check due to which users with user management permission who are assigned to some organization(s) can do all operations granted by these permissions on all administrator user object outside of their scope, such as editing global admin accounts including changing their passwords.

Affected products

• Theforeman Foreman: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; …

Published 2017-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.