{"id":"CVE-2016-9471","aliases":["EUVD-2016-10277","GHSA-j7g3-qm5c-2j6r"],"status":"published","title":"Revive Adserver before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 suffers from Special Element Injection. Usernames weren't...","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.","severity":{"version":"3.0","score":3.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-07","score":0.01367,"percentile":0.72011,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-75"],"published":"2017-03-28T02:46:00Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:47:59Z","products":[{"vendor":"revive-adserver","product":"revive_adserver"}],"references":[{"url":"https://hackerone.com/reports/128181","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Permissions Required","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/05b1eceb","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix"]},{"url":"https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-002/","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Vendor Advisory","fix"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9471"},{"url":"https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-002"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7g3-qm5c-2j6r"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2016-9471","description":"Revive Adserver before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 suffers from Special Element Injection. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-13T01:38:32Z","modified":"2025-04-20T03:36:00Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":3.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"low"}],"cwes":["CWE-75"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:01:43.480751Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2016-9471","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. 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