DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check. This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The version of Solarwinds Web Help Desk installed on the remote host is prior to 12.8.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 12.8.4 release notes.

  - Cure53 DOMPurify before 2.0.17 allows mutation XSS. This occurs because a serialize-parse roundtrip does     not necessarily return the original DOM tree, and a namespace can change from HTML to MathML, as     demonstrated by nesting of FORM elements. (CVE-2020-26870)

  - SolarWinds Web Help Desk was susceptible to a local file read vulnerability. This vulnerability requires     the software be installed on Linux and configured to use non-default development/test mode making exposure     to the vulnerability very limited. (CVE-2024-45709)

  - DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been     discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to     DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check.
    This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed     in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds     for this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-45801)

  - DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMpurify was     vulnerable to nesting-based mXSS. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.0 and 3.1.3. (CVE-2024-47875)

  - DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify was     vulnerable to prototype pollution. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.2. (CVE-2024-48910)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10762 advisory.

    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing     IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to     individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing     knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an     organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless     language.

    Security Fix(es):
    * automation-controller: dompurify: XSS vulnerability via prototype pollution (CVE-2024-45801)
    * automation-controller: path-to-regexp: Backtracking regular expressions cause ReDoS (CVE-2024-45296)
    * ansible-core: Exposure of Sensitive Information in Ansible Vault Files Due to Improper Logging     (CVE-2024-8775)
    * ansible-core: ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content (CVE-2024-9902)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Updates and fixes for automation controller:
    * Fix job schedules running at incorrect times when rrule interval was set to HOURLY or MINUTELY     (AAP-36573)
    * Fixed an issue where sensitive data was displayed in the job output (AAP-35582)
    * With this update, you can now save a constructed inventory when verbosity is greater than 2 (AAP-35570)
    * Fix bug where unrelated jobs could be marked as a dependency of other jobs (AAP-35310)
    * Add support for receiving webhooks from Bitbucket Data Center, and add support for posting build     statuses back (AAP-35013)
    * Notification List no longer errors when notifications have a missing or null organization field     (AAP-34051)
    * Fixed an issue where Thycotic secret server credentials form fields were mis-matched (AAP-31236)
    * automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.13

    Updates and fixes for receptor:
    * Fixed an issue that caused a Receptor runtime panic error (AAP-36477)
    * receptor has been updated to 1.5.1

    Updates and fixes for installer and setup:
    * Receptor data directory can now be configured using 'receptor_datadir' variable (AAP-36699)
    * Fixed issue where metrics-utility command failed to run after updating Automation controller (AAP-36567)
    * Fix issue where the dispatcher service went into FATAL status and failed to process new jobs after a     database outage of a few minutes (AAP-36456)
    * Fixed an issue that caused incorrect IDs for RBAC in the database following a backup restore (AAP-35311)
    * With this update, installer tasks that include CA or key information are obfuscated (AAP-27480)
    * installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-8

    Note: The 2.4-8 installer can restore a backup created with 2.4-8 or later only. Ensure that you make a     backup before and after the upgrade to 2.4-8 or later.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
213005	SolarWinds Web Help Desk < 12.8.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium
212033	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:10762)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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