It was found that foreman before 1.13.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS via an organization or location name. This could allow an attacker with privileges to set the organization or location name to display arbitrary HTML including scripting code within the web interface.
CVE-2016-8639
Score 5.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 6.1; sources differ by 0.7.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.1
- EG Score
- 5.4(medium)
- EPSS
- 63.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 1, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (10)
- secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94263
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8639
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3523
- secalert@redhathttps://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15037
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94263
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8639
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3523
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15037
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2016-8639(1)
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Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | tfm-rubygem-smart_proxy_dynflow_core-0:0.1.10-1.fm1_15.el7sat | 2018-02-21 | redhat |
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