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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2018-16887)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1222 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructure.
    It allows for provisioning, remote management, and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single     centralized tool.

    Security Fix(es):

    * RESTEasy: Abuse of GZIPInterceptor in RESTEasy can lead to denial of service attack (CVE-2016-6346)

    * pulp: Improper path parsing leads to overwriting of iso repositories (CVE-2018-10917)

    * foreman: Persisted XSS on all pages that use breadcrumbs (CVE-2018-14664)

    * foreman: stored XSS in success notification after entity creation (CVE-2018-16861)

    * katello: stored XSS in subscriptions and repositories pages (CVE-2018-16887)

    * candlepin: credentials exposure through log files (CVE-2019-3891)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes is     available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
416978	SCA: security update for katello (GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
416978	SCA: security update for katello (GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
125052	RHEL 7 : Satellite 6.5 Release (Moderate) (RHSA-2019:1222)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high

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