Spacewalk
CVE-2014-7811
LOW
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 3.5 (LOW). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, M complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.18%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite before 5.7.0 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Sanitize all user input, use Content-Security-Policy headers, encode output contextually (HTML, JS, URL). Use frameworks with built-in XSS protection.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79), which allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users. Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite before 5.7.0 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the REST API. Affected products include: Redhat Network Satellite, Redhat Spacewalk, Suse Manager. Version information: before 5.7.0.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite before 5.7.0 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the REST API.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
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EPSS
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
A flaw was found in Spacewalk up to version 2.9 where it was vulnerable to XML internal entity attacks via the /rpc/api
Spacewalk 2.10, and derivatives such as Uyuni 2021.08, allows code injection. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulne
A path traversal flaw was found in spacewalk-proxy, all versions through 2.9, in the way the proxy processes cached clie
Spacewalk 2.6 contains an API which has an XXE flaw allowing for the disclosure of potentially sensitive information fro
It was found that Spacewalk, all versions through 2.9, did not safely compute client token checksums. Rated medium sever
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite before 5.7.0 allows remote aut
GitHub PoC
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