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medium 4.8

CVE-2024-4812 json

Katello: potential cross-site scripting exploit in ui

published 2024-06-05 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-44560

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the Katello plugin for Foreman, where it is possible to store malicious JavaScript code in the "Description" field of a user. This code can be executed when opening certain pages, for example, Host Collections.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-4812 updated cvss 4.8

katello: potential cross-site scripting exploit in UI

  • Red Hat Satellite 6 katello, katello-common, katello-capsule, katello-service, foreman-proxy-content
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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