CVE-2016-9471

Published Mar 28, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 3.1 Low EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10277 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
hackerone
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 2:50 AM
Reserved
Nov 19, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 28, 2017, 2:59 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:56 AM