Bug 1839865 (CVE-2019-20798)

Summary:	CVE-2019-20798 cherokee: XSS in the administrator panel
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	pavel.lisy
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-05-25 19:14:47 UTC

An XSS issue was discovered in handler_server_info.c in Cherokee through 1.2.104. The requested URL is improperly displayed on the About page in the default configuration of the web server and its administrator panel. The XSS in the administrator panel can be used to reconfigure the server and execute arbitrary commands.

References:
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1227
https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/11/cherokee.html

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-05-25 19:15:05 UTC

Created cherokee tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1839866]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1839867]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-25 21:15:32 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.