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CVE-2017-9268
open-build-service retrigger / wipebinaries hitting the wrong project bypassing access permissions
Medium4.4EPSS 0.60%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microfocus
Description
In the open build service before 201707022 the wipetrigger and rebuild actions checked the wrong project for permissions, allowing authenticated users to cause operations on projects where they did not have permissions leading to denial of service (resource consumption).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microfocusCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
- incorrect permission checking lead to authenticated users to cause rebuilds or allowing wiping binaries in other projects.
- CWE-285 (opens in a new tab)
- CWE-732 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
SUSE · open build service
- affected unspecified – < 20170722 git
References (2)
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045519 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/pull/3267 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .