Stored cross-site scripting via user Description
Published Jun 5, 2024 · Updated Nov 20, 2025
Stored cross-site scripting in Katello and Red Hat Satellite allows remote authenticated users to run JavaScript via a user Description field. The user Description value is stored without effective neutralization and later rendered by pages such as Host Collections, causing the browser to interpret attacker-supplied script. Exploitation requires permission to modify a user description and a separate user to open an affected page, exposing data and actions available in that user's web session.
Summary
What happened
Stored cross-site scripting in Katello and Red Hat Satellite allows remote authenticated users to run JavaScript via a user Description field. The user Description value is stored without effective neutralization and later rendered by pages such as Host Collections, causing the browser to interpret attacker-supplied script. Exploitation requires permission to modify a user description and a separate user to open an affected page, exposing data and actions available in that user's web session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-4812
- Published
- Jun 5, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 20, 2025
- Vendor
- Katello Project
- Product
- Katello
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 5, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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