VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-9471

CVSS score3.1 LOW
EPSS probability1.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-03-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

Primary references