CVE-2016-8613

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A flaw was found in foreman 1.5.1. The remote execution plugin runs commands on hosts over SSH from the Foreman web UI. When a job is submitted that contains HTML tags, the console output shown in the web UI does not escape the output causing any HTML or JavaScript to run in the user's browser. The output of the job is stored, making this a stored XSS vulnerability.

Affected products

foreman: 1.5.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93859
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8613
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_remote_execution/pull/208
https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17066/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93859
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8613
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_remote_execution/pull/208
https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17066/

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