SB2019010911 - Cross-site scripting in Bootstrap
Published: January 9, 2019 Updated: October 10, 2019
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10735)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the "data-target" attribute. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1456
- https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/12/13/bootstrap-3-4-0/
- https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20184
- https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/27915#issuecomment-452140906
- https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23679
- https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23687
- https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/26460