Bug 1255170 (CVE-2015-5216)

Summary:	CVE-2015-5216 ipsilon: XSS due to exception handling
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	puiterwijk, rcritten, slong, ssorce, vkrizan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was discovered in the Ipsilon IdP server in its use of Python templates, where JavaScript code could potentially be injected into an Python exception-message template. A remote, unauthorised attacker could use this flaw to perform an XXS attack.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-10-21 00:47:00 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1255176, 1255775
Bug Blocks:	1255174

Description Kurt Seifried 2015-08-19 20:25:35 UTC

Michael Scherer of Red Hat reports:

ipsilon does not escape HTML when processing http(s) request responses, allowing to inject js code into Python exception message template.

Upstream patch:

https://pagure.io/ipsilon/a503aa9c2a30a74e709d1c88099befd50fb2eb16

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2015-08-19 20:36:03 UTC

Created ipsilon tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1255176]

Comment 3 Viliam Križan 2015-08-24 08:58:49 UTC

Acknowledgement:

This issue was discovered by Michael Scherer of Red Hat.

Comment 5 Ilya Etingof 2015-08-24 09:19:38 UTC

Analysis:

It was found that js code could potentially be injected into Python exception message template.