CVE-2016-6319

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in app/helpers/form_helper.rb in Foreman before 1.12.2, as used by Remote Execution and possibly other plugins, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the label parameter.

Affected products

foreman: through 1.12.1

References

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16019
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16024
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92429
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365815
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/0f35fe14acf0d0d3b55e9337bc5e2b9640ff2372
https://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-6319
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16019
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16024
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92429
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365815

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