Bug 1365815 (CVE-2016-6319) - CVE-2016-6319 foreman: Persistent XSS in Foreman remote execution plugin
Summary: CVE-2016-6319 foreman: Persistent XSS in Foreman remote execution plugin
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-6319
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1369872 1369882
Blocks: 1365818 1432305
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Reported: 2016-08-10 09:28 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-10-21 00:54 UTC (History)
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It was found that foreman is vulnerable to a stored XSS via a job template with a malformed name. This could allow an attacker with privileges to set the name in a template to display arbitrary HTML including scripting code within the web interface.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:54:29 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0336 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Satellite 6.3 security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2018-02-21 22:43:42 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-08-10 09:28:33 UTC 
Marek Hulán of Red Hat reports:

User can define a job template and specify input name containing JS code. When
someone tries to invoke such job, the form is generated based on this name
without proper escaping so the JS gets executed.

Upstream issue:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16019

Proposed upstream patch:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3715/commits/4b63d2c7cdad76ed2bf96d9f8dff7e0c5cdabda6
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2017-07-13 01:04:50 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Marek Hulán (Red Hat)
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-21 12:27:55 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
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