CVE-2016-6812

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

10/08/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

The HTTP transport module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 uses FormattedServiceListWriter to provide an HTML page which lists the names and absolute URL addresses of the available service endpoints. The module calculates the base URL using the current HttpServletRequest. The calculated base URL is used by FormattedServiceListWriter to build the service endpoint absolute URLs. If the unexpected matrix parameters have been injected into the request URL then these matrix parameters will find their way back to the client in the services list page which represents an XSS risk to the client.

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:a:apache:cxf::::::::		3.0.11 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.8:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf::::::::		3.0.11 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.8:::::::*

CVE-2016-6812

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools