CVE-2016-6840
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM before V200R001C04SPC200 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the loginName parameter to cgi-bin/doLogin_CgiEntry and possibly other unspecified vectors.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM before V200R001C04SPC200 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the loginName parameter to cgi-bin/doLogin_CgiEntry and possibly other unspecified vectors.
- Record
CVE-2016-6840- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM before V200R001C04SPC200 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the loginName parameter to cgi-bin/doLogin_CgiEntry and possibly other unspecified vectors.
- Record
CVE-2016-6840- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-7725 No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM before V200R001C04SPC200 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the loginName parameter to cgi-bin/doLogin_CgiEntry and possibly other unspecified vectors.
- Record
EUVD-2016-7725- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hqcc-59hg-rf7p
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management interface in Huawei OceanStor ISM before V200R001C04SPC200 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the loginName parameter to cgi-bin/doLogin_CgiEntry and possibly other unspecified vectors.
- Record
GHSA-hqcc-59hg-rf7p- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2016-6840 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Huawei Oceanstor Ism, published September 26, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.89%, the 59th percentile. No source names a fixed version.