01 Record
CVE-2016-9471
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: hackerone
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 71.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 3.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-03-28 02:46Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 02:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-11-19
- Assigning CNA
- hackerone
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-75Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a296583b50b9c3e795fcb5643d179168c965d453d95f387455d075d3f20399cc
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
n/aRevive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0—
06 References
- hackerone.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/128181
- github.comhttps://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/05b1eceb
- www.revive-adserver.comhttps://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-002/