CVE-2018-16887

katello: stored XSS in subscriptions and repositories pages

Severity Score

5.4

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Se ha encontrado un error de Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) en el componente "katello" de Satellite. Un atacante con privilegios para crear/editar organizaciones y ubicaciones puede ejecutar un ataque XSS contra otros usuarios mediante los asistentes "Subscriptions" o "Red Hat Repositories". Esto podría conducir a la ejecución de código malicioso y a la extracción del token anti-CSRF de usuarios con mayores privilegios. Las versiones anteriores a la 3.9.0 son vulnerables.

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 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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-09-11 CVE Reserved
2019-01-13 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2024-08-05 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

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

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16887	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222	2019-05-14
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16887	2019-05-14
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645190	2019-05-14

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Satellite Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Satellite"				6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Satellite" and version "6.0"		-		Affected
Theforeman Search vendor "Theforeman"		Katello Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Katello"				< 3.9.0 Search vendor "Theforeman" for product "Katello" and version " < 3.9.0"		-		Affected