CVE-2018-16887: Cross-site Scripting

January 13, 2019 (updated May 14, 2019)

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

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16887
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16887

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