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CVE-2016-9471

LOW · CVSS 3.1 EPSS 1.37% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-03-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.1. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit
GitHub PoC Links

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CVE
CVE-2016-9471
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.1
EPSS
1.37%

Original NVD 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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