Bug 1645201 (CVE-2018-16861)

Summary:	CVE-2018-16861 foreman: stored XSS in success notification after entity creation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bbuckingham, bcourt, bkearney, mmccune, mrike, ohadlevy, rchan, rcosta, rjerrido
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	foreman 1.18.3, foreman 1.19.1, foreman 1.20.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the foreman component of satellite. An attacker with privilege to create entries using the Hosts, Monitor, Infrastructure, or Administer Menus is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users, possibly leading to malicious code execution and extraction of the anti-CSRF token of higher privileged users.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:41:38 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1652785
Bug Blocks:	1637732, 1640755

Description Laura Pardo 2018-11-01 15:42:03 UTC

A flaw was found in foreman before versions 1.18.3, 1.19.1, 1.20.0. An stored XSS in the entity creation field.


References:
https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/24807

Upstream Patches:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6060
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6041

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-11-01 15:42:15 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Sanket Jagtap (Red Hat Pune India)

Comment 7 Richard Maciel Costa 2018-12-04 21:21:08 UTC

*** Bug 1645208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Richard Maciel Costa 2018-12-04 21:22:50 UTC

Note job invocation uses the same code to generate a toast message when successfully creating the job, hence that's another vector for exploiting this issue. That's the reason for Bug #1645208 being marked as duplicate as this one.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-05-14 12:36:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.5 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2019:1222 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222