Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in spacewalk-java before 2.1.148-1 and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via the return_url parameter.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Network Satellite Managed Db 5 | spacewalk-web +2 | 2.0.3-19.el5sat | RHSA-2014:0148 |
| Red Hat Network Satellite 5 | satellite-branding | 5.6.0.23-1.el5sat | RHSA-2014:0148 |
| Red Hat Network Satellite 5 | spacewalk-java +5 | 2.0.2-58.el5sat | RHSA-2014:0148 |
| Red Hat Network Satellite 5 | spacewalk-pxt +8 | 2.0.3-19.el5sat | RHSA-2014:0148 |
Advisories 1
- RHSA-2014:0148 Red Hat Security Advisory: spacewalk-java, spacewalk-web and satellite-branding security update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 28, 2026
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923464
- 56952 third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2014:0148 vendor-advisory
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=18c70164285cae0660fa3ac55c6656bb19b3b13f
- SUSE-SU-2014:0222 vendor-advisory