Cross-site scripting in Ganglia-web - CVE-2019-20378
Published: November 28, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU69643
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20378
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 "ce" parameter to header.php. 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.
Affected software
Ganglia-web
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
ganglia-web
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
ganglia-web
How to mitigate CVE-2019-20378
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
ganglia-web - addressed in versions 3.7.5-3.8.1, 3.7.5-150000.4.3.1, 3.7.5-150200.3.3.1