CVE-2012-6149

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-02-10
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
882000: CVE-2012-6149 Satellite, Spacewalk (spacewalk-java): XSS in system.addNote XML-RPC call due improper sanitization of note's subject and content

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in systems/sdc/notes.jsp in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) subject or (2) content values of a note in a system.addNote XML-RPC call.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6149 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.6 (RHEL v.6) (spacewalk-web) RHSA-2014:0148 2014-02-10
Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.6 (RHEL v.5) (spacewalk-web) RHSA-2014:0148 2014-02-10
Red Hat Satellite 5.6 (RHEL v.6) RHSA-2014:0148 2014-02-10
Red Hat Satellite 5.6 (RHEL v.5) RHSA-2014:0148 2014-02-10

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Ben Ford of Puppet Labs for reporting this issue.

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