CVE-2018-16887

MEDIUM

Red Hat Satellite and Katello < 3.9.0 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Organization and Location Names

Title source: llm

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the katello component of Satellite. An attacker with privilege to create/edit organizations and locations is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users through the Subscriptions or the Red Hat Repositories wizards. This can possibly lead to malicious code execution and extraction of the anti-CSRF token of higher privileged users. Versions before 3.9.0 are vulnerable.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16887

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4

EPSS 0.0035

EPSS Percentile 57.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (3)

redhat/satellite 6.0

rubygems/katello 0 - 3.9.0RubyGems

theforeman/katello < 3.9.0

Published Jan 13, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026