CVE-2016-9471 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2016-9471

Revive Adserver before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 suffers from Special Element...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0
Vulnerable Versions:
Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 28th, 2017
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.