CVE-2016-8634

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    CVE-2016-8634

    Published: 1 Aug 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A vulnerability was found in foreman 1.14.0. When creating an organization or location in Foreman, if the name contains HTML then the second step of the wizard (/organizations/id/step2) will render the HTML. This occurs in the alertbox on the page. The result is a stored XSS attack if an organization/location with HTML in the name is created, then a user is linked directly to this URL.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94206, https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17195, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8634

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- d09ddb013d43aa016517aff75a4b154c101e31cc
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.14.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High