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RukovoditelApplication

CVE-2020-18470

MEDIUM · 5.4 CVSS v3.1 Published 2021-08-26
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58/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Public exploit Remotely reachable

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Name of application field found in the General Configuration page in Rukovoditel 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted website name by doing an authenticated POST HTTP request to rukovoditel_2.4.1/install/index.php.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-79

Untrusted input is placed into a web page without being neutralised, so an attacker's markup or script executes in another user's browser. That can hijack sessions, capture keystrokes, or silently perform actions as the victim. Fixing it properly means context-aware output encoding everywhere data meets HTML, backed by a content-security policy as a second line of defence.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
RukovoditelApplication
Affected:= 2.4.1

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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dbcve · scoped
Recommended fix Moderate confidence

Rukovoditel 2.4.2 or latest stable release (verify XSS fix in release notes)

  1. 1. Backup the current Rukovoditel installation and database before proceeding with any upgrade.
  2. 2. Download the latest stable version of Rukovoditel from the official source (rukovoitel.com or the project's GitHub repository).
  3. 3. Before upgrading, review the release notes or changelog for version 2.4.2 or later to confirm the XSS vulnerability fix is included.
  4. 4. Install the new version following the standard upgrade process documented by Rukovoditel.
  5. 5. After upgrade, verify the 'Name of application' field in General Configuration no longer accepts XSS payloads by testing with a benign script tag like <script>alert('XSS')</script>.
  6. 6. If the upgrade cannot be performed immediately, implement input validation/sanitization on the server side for the application name field as a temporary mitigation.
Caveat Review upgrade documentation for any configuration or database changes required when migrating from 2.4.1

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

No vendor fix exists Rukovoditel has not published a patch for this.

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