katello Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Published: May 14, 2022
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2018-16887 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm
- Vendor Advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 5.4 (Medium)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 3.9.0
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.
