CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9471

3.1 LOW Published 2017-03-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
3.1 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-75

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• revive-adserver revive adserver (<= 3.2.4) • revive-adserver revive adserver 4.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-75 Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane weakness

References