RHSA-2017:0161 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-XStatic-jquery-ui is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

jQuery UI is a set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript library.

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that a parameter of the dialog box feature of jQuery UI was vulnerable to cross site scripting. An attacker could use this flaw to execute a malicious script via the dialog box when it was displayed to a user. (CVE-2016-7103)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1360286 - CVE-2016-7103 jquery-ui: cross-site scripting in dialog closeText

CVEs

• CVE-2016-7103

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/127