A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in how an organization name is displayed in Satellite 5, before 5.8.

Published 8 y ago 2018-07-26 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

3.5

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.7%

percentile 55%

Public exploits

none known

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in how an organization name is displayed in Satellite 5, before 5.8. A user able to change an organization's name could exploit this flaw to perform XSS attacks against other Satellite users.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.75% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	3.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`
CNA	3.0	3.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`
NVD	3.0	5.4	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
NVD	2.0	3.5	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7538 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1039267 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:2645 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-7538
NVD: CVE-2017-7538

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