CVE-2016-8613

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-10-24
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
1387232: CVE-2016-8613 foreman: Stored XSS vulnerability in remote execution plugin

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A flaw was found in foreman 1.5.1. The remote execution plugin runs commands on hosts over SSH from the Foreman web UI. When a job is submitted that contains HTML tags, the console output shown in the web UI does not escape the output causing any HTML or JavaScript to run in the user's browser. The output of the job is stored, making this a stored XSS vulnerability.

Find out more about CVE-2016-8613 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 6.4
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 6 tfm-rubygem-foreman_remote_execution Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Sanket Jagtap (Red Hat).

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