CVE-2016-9471

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

Revive Adserver before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 suffers from Special Element Injection. Usernames weren't properly sanitised when creating users on a Revive Adserver instance. Especially, control characters were not filtered, allowing apparently identical usernames to co-exist in the system, due to the fact that such characters are normally ignored when an HTML page is displayed in a browser. The issue could have therefore been exploited for user spoofing, although elevated privileges are required to create users within Revive Adserver.

CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 3.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Revive Adserver

First reported 7 years ago

2017-03-28 02:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-09 23:20:00

Affected Software

Revive-adserver Revive Adserver

Revive Adserver 4.0.0

4.0.0

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