CVE-2016-8613 Information

Description

A flaw was found in foreman 1.5.1. The remote execution plugin runs commands on hosts over SSH from the Foreman web UI. When a job is submitted that contains HTML tags the console output shown in the web UI does not escape the output causing any HTML or JavaScript to run in the user’s browser. The output of the job is stored making this a stored XSS vulnerability.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93859 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8613 https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_remote_execution/pull/208 https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17066/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1