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CVE-2016-3978

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
08/04/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

The Web User Interface (WebUI) in FortiOS 5.0.x before 5.0.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.3, and 5.4.x before 5.4.0 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the "redirect" parameter to "login."

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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