GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm

katello Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-16887

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	katello	< 3.9.0	3.9.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16887 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16887 web
https://github.com/Katello/katello package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/katello/CVE-2018-16887.yml web