CVE-2016-6127 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2016-6127

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before...

Vulnerability Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2, when the AlwaysDownloadAttachments config setting is not in use, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file upload with an unspecified content type.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

request tracker
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8, 4.0.9, 4.0.10, 4.0.11, 4.0.12, 4.0.13, 4.0.14, 4.0.15, 4.0.16, 4.0.17, 4.0.18, 4.0.19, 4.0.20, 4.0.21, 4.0.22, 4.0.23, 4.0.24, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 4.2.6, 4.2.7, 4.2.8, 4.2.9, 4.2.10, 4.2.11, 4.2.12, 4.2.13, 4.4.0, 4.4.1

Timeline

Official Publish: July 3rd, 2017
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.