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SUSE: CVE-2017-7470: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/19/2017
Modified
05/10/2021

Description

It was found that spacewalk-channel can be used by a non-admin user or disabled users to perform administrative tasks due to an incorrect authorization check in backend/server/rhnChannel.py.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-rhnlib
  • suse-upgrade-spacecmd
  • suse-upgrade-spacewalk-backend-libs
  • suse-upgrade-spacewalk-check
  • suse-upgrade-spacewalk-client-setup
  • suse-upgrade-spacewalk-client-tools

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:1346-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1347-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1349-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1352-1
  • CVE-2017-7470

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