CVE-2015-0284
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7...
CVE-2015-0284 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) in Redhat Satellite, published April 14, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.24%, the 69th percentile. Fixed in spacewalk-java 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the XMLRPC API, involving user details. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-7811.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
5.4
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the XMLRPC API, involving user details. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-7811.
- Record
CVE-2015-0284- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the XMLRPC API, involving user details. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-7811.
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CVE-2015-0284- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-0297 No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the XMLRPC API, involving user details. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-7811.
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EUVD-2015-0297- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q4pf-r4w7-4wpv
5.4
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spacewalk-java in Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted XML data to the XMLRPC API, involving user details. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-7811.
- Record
GHSA-q4pf-r4w7-4wpv- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1367-1 No score
Security update for SUSE Manager Server 2.1
This update for SUSE Manager Server 2.1 fixes the following issues:
cobbler:
- Add logrotate file for cobbler (bsc#976826)
- Fix cobbler yaboot handling (bsc#968406, bsc#966622)
osad:
- Fix file permissions (bsc#970550)
rhnlib:
- Use TLSv1_METHOD in SSL Context (bsc#970989)
spacewalk-backend:
- Mgr_ncc_sync: Adapt to bulk scheduling introduced in scheduleSingleSatRepoSync
spacewalk-branding:
- Fix link to 'Schedule patch updates' (bsc#973432)
- Fix link to scheduled action for SP migration (bsc#968257, bsc#974315)
- Fix: 'Advanced Search' title consistency
spacewalk-certs-tools:
- Fix file permissions (bsc#970550)
spacewalk-java:
- Recreate upgrade paths on every refresh (bsc#978166)
- Call cobbler sync after cobbler command is finished (bsc#966890)
- Under high load, the service wrapper may incorrectly interpret the inability to get a response in time from taskomatic and kill it (bsc#962253)
- Log permissions problems on channel access while SP migration (bsc#970223)
- Unittests: support SLE-POS 11 SP3 as addon for SLES 11 SP4 (bsc#976194)
- Mgr-sync: use bulk channel reposync (bsc#961002)
- Double the backslashes when reading the config files from java (bsc#958923)
- When generating repo metadata for a cloned channel, recursively fetch keywords from the original channel (bsc#970901)
- Better logging for SP Migration feature (bsc#970223)
- Fix: 'Advanced Search' title consistency
- CVE-2015-0284: XSS when altering user details and going somewhere where you are choosing user (bsc#922740)
- CVE-2016-3079, CVE-2016-2103, CVE-2016-2104, CVE-2016-3097: Fix multiple XSS vulnerabilities (bsc#973162, bsc#974011, bsc#974010, bsc#973550)
- BugFix: 'Systems > Advanced Search' title and description consistency (bsc#966737)
- Fix: correct behavior with visibility conditions of sub-tabs in Systems/Misc page
- BugFix: add missing url mapping (bsc#961565)
- Fix kernel and initrd pathes for creating autoinstallation tries (bsc#966622)
- Fix tests for HAE-GEO on SLES 4 SAP (bsc#970425)
- Add unit tests for SLE-Live-Patching12 (bsc#924298)
spacewalk-utils:
- Bugfix: don't repeat channel labels
- Taskotop: a utility to monitor what Taskomatic is doing
- Fix file permissions (bsc#970550)
suseRegisterInfo:
- Fix file permissions (bsc#970550)
susemanager:
- Add packages to bootstrap repo (bsc#971237)
- Mgr-sync: use bulk channel reposync (bsc#961002)
- Mgr_ncc_sync: adapt to bulk scheduling introduced in scheduleSingleSatRepoSync
- Add SLES 4 SAP to mgr-create-bootstap-repo as an option (bsc#972341)
- Put packages only available in SLE12 SP1 in a seperate list (bsc#970672)
- Fix file permissions (bsc#970550)
susemanager-sync-data:
- Support SLE-POS 11 SP3 as addon for SLES 11 SP4 (bsc#976194)
- HAE-GEO is an addon product for SLES 4 SAP (bsc#970425)
- Add support for SLE-Live-Patching12 (bsc#924298, bsc#968851)
susemanager-tftpsync:
- Rename change_tftpd_proxies.py to sync_post_tftpd_proxies.py and change trigger type (bsc#966890)
How to apply this update:
- Log in as root user to the SUSE Manager server.
- Stop the Spacewalk service: spacewalk-service stop
- Apply the patch using either zypper patch or YaST Online Update.
- Start the Spacewalk service: spacewalk-service start
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SUSE-SU-2016:1367-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
spacewalk-javaRed Hat:network_satellite:5.7::el6 |
before 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat | 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat |
spacewalk-java-configRed Hat:network_satellite:5.7::el6 |
before 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat | 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat |
spacewalk-java-libRed Hat:network_satellite:5.7::el6 |
before 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat | 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat |
spacewalk-java-oracleRed Hat:network_satellite:5.7::el6 |
before 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat | 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat |
spacewalk-java-postgresqlRed Hat:network_satellite:5.7::el6 |
before 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat | 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat |
spacewalk-taskomaticRed Hat:network_satellite:5.7::el6 |
before 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat | 0:2.3.8-134.el6sat |
cobblerSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.2.2-0.61.2 | 2.2.2-0.61.2 |
osadSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 5.11.33.11-15.2 | 5.11.33.11-15.2 |
rhnlibSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.5.69.8-11.2 | 2.5.69.8-11.2 |
spacewalk-backendSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.55.25-24.5 | 2.1.55.25-24.5 |
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| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
spacewalk-brandingSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.33.16-18.2 | 2.1.33.16-18.2 |
spacewalk-certs-toolsSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.6.10-18.3 | 2.1.6.10-18.3 |
spacewalk-javaSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.165.23-20.1 | 2.1.165.23-20.1 |
spacewalk-utilsSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.27.15-12.7 | 2.1.27.15-12.7 |
suseRegisterInfoSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.12-14.2 | 2.1.12-14.2 |
susemanagerSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.24-23.1 | 2.1.24-23.1 |
susemanager-sync-dataSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.15-30.2 | 2.1.15-30.2 |
susemanager-tftpsyncSUSE:Manager 2.1 |
before 2.1.2-11.2 | 2.1.2-11.2 |
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | aliases | EUVD |
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
References
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0590.html
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181472
github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/dd418384171473c3e31386a1b4792f8c555dc744
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315398
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314906
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181152
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github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/f3792c79c1c251a49cc4e382be8591636326a794
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0284
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0590
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0284
github.com/advisories/GHSA-q4pf-r4w7-4wpv
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305677
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305681
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313515
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313517
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320444
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320452
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320940
security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2016/rhsa-2016_0590.json
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0284
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2103
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2103
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2103
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2104
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2104
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2104
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3079
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3079
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3079
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20161367-1
bugzilla.suse.com/922740
bugzilla.suse.com/924298
bugzilla.suse.com/958923
bugzilla.suse.com/961002
bugzilla.suse.com/961565
bugzilla.suse.com/962253
bugzilla.suse.com/966622
bugzilla.suse.com/966737
bugzilla.suse.com/966890
bugzilla.suse.com/968257
bugzilla.suse.com/968406
bugzilla.suse.com/968851
bugzilla.suse.com/970223
bugzilla.suse.com/970425
bugzilla.suse.com/970550
bugzilla.suse.com/970672
bugzilla.suse.com/970901
bugzilla.suse.com/970989
bugzilla.suse.com/971237
bugzilla.suse.com/972341
bugzilla.suse.com/973162
bugzilla.suse.com/973432
bugzilla.suse.com/973550
bugzilla.suse.com/974010
bugzilla.suse.com/974011
bugzilla.suse.com/974315
bugzilla.suse.com/976194
bugzilla.suse.com/976826
bugzilla.suse.com/978166
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0284
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2103
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2104
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3079
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3097