Persistent cross-site scripting in Opsview Monitor - CVE-2018-16147
Published: September 5, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14604
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16147
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Opsview
Affected software:
Opsview Monitor
Opsview Monitor
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists in the 'data' parameter of the '/settings/api/router' endpoint due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16147
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 5.3.1, 5.4.2, 6.0.