CVE-2016-1926 (GCVE-0-2016-1926)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-26 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the charts module in Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) 6.x before 6.0.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the aggregate_type parameter in a get_aggregate command to omp.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-01-13 00:00
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        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-79"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "redhat_vex": {
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:10:35+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2016-1926",
      "id": "CVE-2016-1926",
      "initial_release_date": "2016-01-13T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "openvas-gsa: XSS vulnerability due to improper handling of the parameters of get_aggregate command",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-1926.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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