CVE-2018-16861

Summary

CVECVE-2018-16861
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-07 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-05-14 17:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the foreman component of satellite. An attacker with privilege to create entries using the Hosts, Monitor, Infrastructure, or Administer Menus is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users, possibly leading to malicious code execution and extraction of the anti-CSRF token of higher privileged users. Foreman before 1.18.3, 1.19.1, and 1.20.0 are vulnerable.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Theforeman Foreman All All All All
Application Theforeman Foreman 1.20.0 rc1 All All
Application Theforeman Foreman 1.20.0 rc2 All All
Application Theforeman Foreman All All All All
Application Theforeman Foreman 1.20.0 rc1 All All
Application Theforeman Foreman 1.20.0 rc2 All All

References

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Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
1645201 – (CVE-2018-16861) CVE-2018-16861 foreman: stored XSS in success notification after entity creation CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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