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CVE-2011-2920

medium

A flaw was found in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network Satellite.

Vendor / product: Redhat — network satellite

A flaw was found in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network Satellite. This cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into web pages through various input fields, such as the "Filter by Synopsis" field. This could lead to the execution of malicious code in a user's web browser, potentially compromising user sessions or disclosing sensitive information.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2014-02-05 18:55
Modified: 2026-10-30 19:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 19:20 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

redhat / network_satellite all versions
redhat / spacewalk 1.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1299.html
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681032
Vendor advisory: https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-announce-list/2011-December/msg00000.html
Vendor advisory: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1299.html
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681032
Vendor advisory: https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-announce-list/2011-December/msg00000.html
Patch / mitigation: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1299.html
Patch / mitigation: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1299.html

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 19:20 UTC · record ↗

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