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medium 5.4

CVE-2014-3531 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Foreman before 1.5.2 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script…

published 2017-10-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-3526

cvss
5.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Foreman before 1.5.2 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the operating system (1) name or (2) description.

Patch / fix

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 1:3.14.5.10-9.el6sat
  • v8 satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 1:3.14.5.10-11.el7sat
  • foreman satellite 6.0 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat
  • foreman satellite 6.0 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat
  • katello satellite 6.0 1.5.0-30.el6sat
  • katello satellite 6.0 1.5.0-30.el7sat
  • mongodb satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 2.4.6-2.el6sat
  • mongodb satellite capsule 6.0, satellite 6.0 2.4.9-3.el7sat

red hat advisories RHEA-2014:1175

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-2014-3531 updated cvss 4.3

foreman: XSS with operating system name/description

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 ruby193-foreman Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 foreman
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.0 foreman 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat, foreman 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat, foreman-gce 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat, foreman-gce 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat, foreman-ovirt 1.6.0.44-1.el6sat, foreman-ovirt 1.6.0.44-1.el7sat, +8 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHEA-2014:1175
  • Red Hat OpenStack Foreman foreman Red Hat Satellite 6.0 jansi 1.9-7.el7, bsf 2.4.0-19.el7, cglib 2.2-18.el7, guava 13.0-6.el7, xbean 3.13-6.el7, hawtjni 1.6-9.el7, +764 more Red Hat Satellite 6.0 - Optional ant-jmf 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-jsch 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-antlr 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-junit 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-swing 1.9.2-9.el7, ant-manual 1.9.2-9.el7, +24 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.0 hiera 1.3.1-2.el7, hiera 1.0.0-3.el6_4, gofer 1.3.0-1.el6sat, gofer 1.3.0-1.el7sat, qpid-cpp 0.22-42.el6, qpid-cpp 0.22-42.el7, +221 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.