Cyber Resilience

CVE-2017-7517

Low

Published: 17 October 2022

Published
17 October 2022
Modified
13 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0018 40.0th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2017-7517 is a low-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Redhat Openshift. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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a project called "MyProject" and access the metrics stored from the original "MyProject" instance.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

redhat
openshift
3.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

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