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.
Published: 2017-03-28
Score: 3.1 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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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Revive-adserver Revive Adserver
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:50:38.437Z

Reserved: 2016-11-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9471

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-28T02:59:01.340

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-9471

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