CVE-2016-8634 Information

Description

A vulnerability was found in foreman 1.14.0. When creating an organization or location in Foreman if the name contains HTML then the second step of the wizard (/organizations/id/step2) will render the HTML. This occurs in the alertbox on the page. The result is a stored XSS attack if an organization/location with HTML in the name is created then a user is linked directly to this URL.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94206 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8634 https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17195

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.4