Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package foreman.src (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published20 Feb 2026
- disclosed12 May 2016
Introduced: 12 May 2016
CVE-2016-8639 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream foreman.src package and not the foreman.src package as distributed by RHEL.
It was found that foreman before 1.13.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS via an organization or location name. This could allow an attacker with privileges to set the organization or location name to display arbitrary HTML including scripting code within the web interface.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393291
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8639
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94263
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8639
- https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3523
- https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15037