CVE-2016-8581

high-risk
Published 2016-10-28

A persistent XSS vulnerability exists in the User-Agent header of the login process of AlienVault OSSIM and USM before 5.3.2 that allows an attacker to steal session IDs of logged in users when the current sessions are viewed by an administrator.

Do I need to act?

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68.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 32% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 6.1/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Vendors

56
/ 100
high-risk
Severity 23/34 · High
Exploitability 26/34 · High
Exposure 7/34 · Low