Bug 1393291 (CVE-2016-8639)

Summary:	CVE-2016-8639 foreman: Stored XSS via organization/location with HTML in name
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bkearney, cbillett, ceph-eng-bugs, jmatthew, mmccune, ohadlevy, satellite6-bugs, sisharma, tlestach, tsanders
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	foreman 1.13.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was found that foreman is vulnerable to a stored XSS via an organization or location name. This could allow an attacker with privileges to set the organization or location name to display arbitrary HTML including scripting code within the web interface.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-08-11 14:04:43 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1399317, 1399319
Bug Blocks:	1391526, 1432306

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-09 09:47:10 UTC

Sanket Jagtap of Red Hat reports: 

If an organization or location is created with a name containing HTML,
then the administrator-only Settings page will render the HTML as part
of a dropdown menu.

This may permit a stored XSS attack if an organization/location with
HTML in the name is created, then an administrator attempts to change
the default organization/location settings.

Upstream bug:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15037

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3523

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-11-09 09:47:25 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Sanket Jagtap (Red Hat)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-21 12:25:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.3 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2018:0336 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336