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CVE-2018-16861 — A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the foreman component of satellit

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 e

CVSS
7.6 HIGH
EPSS
0.39% (top 40.50%)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
2018-12-07T19:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T10:32:54.072Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

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. Foreman before 1.18.3, 1.19.1, and 1.20.0…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
The Foreman Projectforeman1.18.3, 1.19.1, 1.20.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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