CVE-2016-8639: Red Hat Satellite

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Satellite: version 6.3 only
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule: version 6.3 only
• Theforeman Foreman: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)

Published 2018-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.