CVE-2018-1000516 Information

Description

The Galaxy Project Galaxy version v14.10 contains a CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability in Many templates used in the Galaxy server did not properly sanitize user’s input which would allow for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. In this form of attack a malicious person can create a URL which when opened by a Galaxy user or administrator would allow the malicious user to execute arbitrary Javascript. that can result in Arbitrary JavaScript code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must interact with component on page witch contains injected JavaScript code.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v14.10.1 v15.01.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://galaxyproject.org/archive/dev-news-briefs/2015-01-13/security

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