FKIE_CVE-2016-8608

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-08-01 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:54
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
JBoss BRMS 6 and BPM Suite 6 are vulnerable to a stored XSS via business process editor. The flaw is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-5398. Remote, authenticated attackers that have privileges to create business processes can store scripts in them, which are not properly sanitized before showing to other users, including admins.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2822.htmlBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2823.htmlBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94568Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8608Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2822.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2823.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94568Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8608Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat jboss_bpm_suite 6.0.0
redhat jboss_business_rules_management_system 6.0.0
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