A vulnerability was found in Foreman up to 1.5.1 (Service Management Software). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation of the argument name/description with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Foreman before 1.5.2 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the operating system (1) name or (2) description.

The bug was discovered 04/26/2016. The weakness was disclosed 10/18/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at projects.theforeman.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-3531 since 05/14/2014. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 540 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.5.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Service Management Software

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• Foreman

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• 1.5.0
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• open-source

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