Bug 1181472 (CVE-2015-0284)

Summary: CVE-2015-0284 Red Hat Satellite: stored XSS in user details fields (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-7811)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: cperry, ggainey, jhutar, kseifried, meissner, mmraka, security-response-team, slong, taw, thomas, tjay, tlestach
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A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in how XML data was handled in Red Hat Satellite. A user able to use the XMLRPC API could exploit this flaw to perform XSS attacks against other Satellite users.
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Last Closed: 2016-04-04 17:02:25 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1181152, 1314906    
Bug Blocks: 1181470, 1305684    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-13 09:26:29 UTC
Jan Hutař reports:

There is stored XSS vulnerability in user details field in Satellite server, they can be exploited by using the XMLRPC API to send XML data containing malformed data.

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2016-03-08 16:34:09 UTC
*** Bug 1315398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2016-03-08 16:37:14 UTC
External reference:
spacewalk git dd418384171473c3e31386a1b4792f8c555dc744
spacewalk git f3792c79c1c251a49cc4e382be8591636326a794

Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2016-03-17 16:25:45 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jan Hutař (Red Hat)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-04 15:36:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.7

Via RHSA-2016:0590 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0590.html