Cross-site scripting in LibreNMS - CVE-2019-15230

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Cross-site scripting in LibreNMS - CVE-2019-15230

Published: August 28, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35590
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15230
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: LibreNMS Project
Affected software:
LibreNMS

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 in the Create User, Inventory, Add Device, Notifications, Alert Rule, Create Maintenance, and Alert Template sections of the admin console. 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.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-15230

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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