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…
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- hackerone
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0
- affected Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0
References (3)
- https://hackerone.com/reports/128181 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/05b1eceb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-002/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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