Stored cross-site scripting in CloudForms - CVE-2019-10177
Published: September 5, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20896
CSH Severity: Medium
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:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10177
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
CloudForms
CloudForms
Detailed vulnerability description
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 within the PDF export component. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open crafted PDF file 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-2019-10177
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.