CVE-2016-6319

foreman: Persistent XSS in Foreman remote execution plugin

Severity Score

6.1

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in app/helpers/form_helper.rb in Foreman before 1.12.2, as used by Remote Execution and possibly other plugins, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the label parameter.

Vulnerabilidad de XSS en app/helpers/form_helper.rb en Foreman en versiones anteriores a 1.12.2, como se utiliza en Remote Execution y posiblemente otros plugins, permite a atacantes remotos inyectar secuencias de comandos web o HTML arbitrarios a través del parámetro de etiqueta.

It was found that foreman is vulnerable to a stored XSS via a job template with a malformed name. This could allow an attacker with privileges to set the name in a template to display arbitrary HTML including scripting code within the web interface.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-07-26 CVE Reserved
2016-08-19 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92429	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/0f35fe14acf0d0d3b55e9337bc5e2b9640ff2372	2023-02-13

URL	Date	SRC
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16019	2023-02-13
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16024	2023-02-13
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336	2023-02-13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365815	2018-02-21
https://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-6319	2023-02-13
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6319	2018-02-21

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Theforeman Search vendor "Theforeman"		Foreman Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman"				<= 1.12.1 Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Foreman" and version " <= 1.12.1"		-		Affected