CVE-2016-8634

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-11-03
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
1391520: CVE-2016-8634 foreman: Stored XSS in org/loc wizard

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A vulnerability was found in foreman 1.14.0. When creating an organization or location in Foreman, if the name contains HTML then the second step of the wizard (/organizations/id/step2) will render the HTML. This occurs in the alertbox on the page. The result is a stored XSS attack if an organization/location with HTML in the name is created, then a user is linked directly to this URL.

Find out more about CVE-2016-8634 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 4.9
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
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 6.1
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 6 foreman Will not fix
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 foreman Will not fix

Acknowledgements

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

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