Security advisory

{
  "id": "7357b2fadf631f9545d01718eed870a377475de880617f75832524d1ff57340f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16887",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-16887",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-16887",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-16887",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-16887",
        "GHSA-mhhc-r88h-2qrm"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/katello/katello",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "18ae245ab701427a13adced9cf851b63f1faa67d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:katello:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.9.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.9.0.rc2",
            "3.9.0.rc1",
            "2.4.0-RC1",
            "rubygem-katello-2.4.0-2",
            "rubygem-katello-2.4.0-1",
            "rubygem-katello-2.3.0-2",
            "katello-2.3.0-1",
            "rubygem-katello-2.3.0-1",
            "rubygem-katello-2.2.0-2",
            "katello-2.2.0-1",
            "rubygem-katello-2.2.0-1",
            "rubygem-katello-1.5.0-11",
            "rubygem-katello-2.0.0-1",
            "katello-2.1.0-1",
            "rubygem-katello-2.1.0-1",
            "katello-2.0.0-0",
            "rubygem-katello-1.5.0-12",
            "rubygem-katello-1.5.0-10",
            "katello-1.5.0-14",
            "katello-1.5.0-13",
            "katello-1.5.0-12",
            "rubygem-katello-1.5.0-9",
            "katello-1.4.9-1",
            "katello-1.5.1-1",
            "katello-1.4.7-1",
            "katello-1.4.8-1",
            "katello-1.4.6-1",
            "katello-1.4.5-1",
            "katello-1.4.4-1",
            "katello-1.4.3-1",
            "katello-1.4.2-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16887.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.822914079Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16887"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:satellite",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-16887",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431450,
  "published_at": "2019-01-13T02:29:00.217+00:00"
}