# CVE-2018-15913: An issue was discovered in Cloudera Manager 5.x through 5.15.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-06-20 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Cloudera Manager 5.x through 5.15.0. One type of page in Cloudera Manager uses a 'returnUrl' parameter to redirect the user to another page in Cloudera Manager once a wizard is completed. The validity of this parameter was not checked. As a result, the user could be automatically redirected to an attacker's external site or perform a malicious JavaScript function that results in cross-site scripting (XSS). This was fixed by not allowing any value in the returnUrl parameter with patterns such as http://, https://, //, or javascript. The only exceptions to this rule are the SAML Login/Logout URLs, which remain supported since they are explicitly configured and they are not passed via the returnUrl parameter.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#cloudera_manager
- https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html

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