Low severity3.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 28, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-9471
CVE-2016-9471
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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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:revive-adserver:revive_adserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:revive-adserver:revive_adserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=3.2.4
- cpe:2.3:a:revive-adserver:revive_adserver:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <3.2.5, <4.0.0
Patches
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References
3- github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/05b1ecebnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-002/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- hackerone.com/reports/128181nvdPermissions Required
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