PT-2016-6825 · Foreman · Foreman

Marek Hulán · Published 2016-08-19 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2016-6319

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Foreman versions prior to 1.12.2

Description A cross-site scripting issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the label parameter. This is related to the app/helpers/form helper.rb file in Foreman, which is used by Remote Execution and possibly other plugins.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.12.2, update to version 1.12.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the label parameter in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6319

RHSA-2018:0336

Affected Products

Foreman

References · 9

• https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/0f35fe14acf0d0d3b55e9337bc5e2b9640ff2372 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6319 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-6319 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6319 · Security Note
• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16024 · Vendor Advisory
• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16019 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365815 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92429 · Note