Red Hat Network Satellite Server Description Field HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	50963
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2011-4346
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 07 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Dec 07 2011 12:00AM
Credit:	William Hoffmann
Vulnerable:	Red Hat Network Satellite Server (for RHEL 6) 5.4 Red Hat Network Satellite Server (for RHEL 5) 5.4
Not Vulnerable:

Red Hat Network Satellite Server Description Field HTML Injection Vulnerability

The Red Hat Network Satellite Server is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Attacker-supplied HTML and script code could be executed in the context of the affected site, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or control how the site is rendered to the user; other attacks are also possible.

Red Hat Network Satellite Server Description Field HTML Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

Red Hat Network Satellite Server Description Field HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Vendor updates are available. Please see the references for details.

Red Hat Network Satellite Server Description Field HTML Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Bug 742050 - (CVE-2011-4346) CVE-2011-4346 satellite: XSS flaw in custom system (Red Hat)
  
• Red Hat Homepage (Red Hat)
  
• RHSA-2011:1794-1 Moderate: Red Hat Network Satellite server security update (Red Hat)