CVE-2016-6556

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-6556
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-24 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-01 17:07:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenNMS version 18.0.1 and prior are vulnerable to a stored XSS issue due to insufficient filtering of SNMP agent supplied data. By creating a malicious SNMP 'sysName' or 'sysContact' response, an attacker can store an XSS payload which will trigger when a user of the web UI views the data. This issue was fixed in version 18.0.2, released on September 20, 2016.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opennms Opennms All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
NMS-8722: XSS vulnerability in display of SNMP sysName and trap varbind values by jeffgdotorg · Pull Request #1019 · OpenNMS/opennms · GitHub MISC github.com
R7-2016-24, OpenNMS Stored XSS via SNMP (CVE-2016-6555, CVE-2016-6556) | Rapid7 Blog MISC www.rapid7.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This issue was discovered by Matthew Kienow and disclosure was coordinated by Rapid7.

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