CVE-2016-9471

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-9471
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerhackerone
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-28 02:59:01 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
DescriptionRevive 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 3.1 LOW from [email protected]

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-75 | NVD-CWE-Other | CWE-75 Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) (CWE-75)

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary3.1LOWCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
2.0[email protected]Primary2.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Revive-adserver Revive Adserver 4.0.0 All All All
Application Revive-adserver Revive Adserver All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na Revive Adserver All Versions Before 3.2.5 And 4.0.0 affected Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hackerone.com Permissions Required
Fix h1 report 128181 · revive-adserver/revive-adserver@05b1ece · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Revive Adserver Security Advisory SA-2016-002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.revive-adserver.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
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