CVE-2016-9471

CVE-2016-9471

Vendor N/A
Product Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0
Weakness CWE-75
Published March 28, 2017
Last update August 6, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 28, 2017 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated