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CVE-2016-8639
It was found that foreman before 1.13.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS via an organization or location name. This could allow an attacker…
Medium6.1EPSS 1.2%
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- redhat
Description
It was found that foreman before 1.13.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS via an organization or location name. This could allow an attacker with privileges to set the organization or location name to display arbitrary HTML including scripting code within the web interface.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
The Foreman Project · foreman
- affected 1.13.0
References (5)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8639 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0336 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3523 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94263 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15037 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .