CVE-2018-8728 — server/app/views/static/code

server/app/views/static/code.html in Kontena before 1.5.0 allows XSS in "kontena master login --remote" code display, as demonstrated by /code#code= in a URI.

01What is this vulnerability?

server/app/views/static/code.html in Kontena before 1.5.0 allows XSS in "kontena master login --remote" code display, as demonstrated by /code#code= in a URI.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

• Published: 2018-03-15T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T23:00:51.192Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/kontena/kontena/pull/3223
• lgtm.com — https://lgtm.com/projects/g/kontena/kontena/rev/06a7a06e65a5ef0dada14faee2ae2038…
• github.com — https://github.com/kontena/kontena/releases/tag/v1.5.0