CVE-2016-3079

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Web UI in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the PATH_INFO to systems/SystemEntitlements.do; (2) the label parameter to admin/multiorg/EntitlementDetails.do; or the name of a (3) snapshot tag or (4) system group in System Set Manager (SSM).

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite 6: 5.7
RedHat Spacewalk-Java: all versions

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0590.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320444
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320452
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320940
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/7920542f
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/7b9ff9ad
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/982b11c9
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/b6491eba
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0590.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320444
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320452
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320940

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