PT-2018-5041 · Foreman · Foreman

Sanket Jagtap · Published 2018-08-01 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-8639

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 1.13.0

Description A stored XSS issue was found, allowing an attacker with privileges to set an organization or location name to display arbitrary HTML, including scripting code, within the web interface.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.13.0, update to version 1.13.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the ability to set organization or location names to trusted users only until a patch is applied.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8639

RHSA-2018:0336

Affected Products

Foreman

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8639 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15037 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8639 · Security Note
• https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3523 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94263 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8639 · Note