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SCA: security update for katello (GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416978

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416978

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16887

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16887

cwe: CWE-79