CVE-2017-15125

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-12-21
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
1517396: CVE-2017-15125 cloudforms: XSS in self-service UI snapshot feature
A flaw was found in CloudForms in the self-service UI snapshot feature where the name field is not properly sanitized for HTML and JavaScript input. An attacker could use this flaw to execute a stored XSS attack on an application administrator using CloudForms. Please note that CSP (Content Security Policy) prevents exploitation of this XSS however not all browsers support CSP.

Find out more about CVE-2017-15125 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of cfme as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 6.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
CloudForms Management Engine 5.9 (cfme) RHSA-2018:0380 2018-03-01

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Yadnyawalk Tale (Red Hat).

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