CVE-2018-16887

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the katello component of Satellite. An attacker with privilege to create/edit organizations and locations is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users through the Subscriptions or the Red Hat Repositories wizards. This can possibly lead to malicious code execution and extraction of the anti-CSRF token of higher privileged users. Versions before 3.9.0 are vulnerable.

CVSS v3 5.4 MEDIUM
CVSS v2.0 3.5 LOW

5.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

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

Exploitability : 2.3 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

3.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : LOW

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Exploitability : 6.8 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16887	Issue Tracking Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:katello::::::::

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2019-01-13 02:29

Updated : 2023-12-10 12:44

NVD link : CVE-2018-16887

Mitre link : CVE-2018-16887

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-16887

JSON object : View

Products Affected

redhat

satellite

theforeman

katello

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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