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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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2016-9471

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-9471

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