Foreman up to 1.9.x Information Popups cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Foreman up to 1.9.x. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Information Popups. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2015-7518. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Foreman up to 1.9.x (Service Management Software). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Information Popups. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in information popups in Foreman before 1.10.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) global parameters, (2) smart class parameters, or (3) smart variables in the (a) host or (b) hostgroup edit forms.

The weakness was released 12/17/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at openwall.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-7518 since 09/29/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 88746 (RHEL 6 / 7 : Satellite 6.1.7 (RHSA-2016:0174)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 1.10.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (88746). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Service Management Software

Name

• Foreman

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9

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• open-source

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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