CVE-2018-16887 (GCVE-0-2018-16887)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-13 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:39
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Summary
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the katello component of Satellite. An attacker with privilege to create/edit organizations and locations is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users through the Subscriptions or the Red Hat Repositories wizards. This can possibly lead to malicious code execution and extraction of the anti-CSRF token of higher privileged users. Versions before 3.9.0 are vulnerable.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 1011 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Katello Project katello Affected: 3.9.0
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Date Public
2018-10-11 00:00
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