CVE-2016-8608

Stored XSS in business process editor

Severity Score

5.4

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

JBoss BRMS 6 y BPM Suite 6 son vulnerables a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) persistente mediante el editor de procesos de negocio. Este error existe debido a una solución incompleta para CVE-2016-5398. Los atacantes remotos autenticados que tienen privilegios para crear procesos de negocio pueden almacenar scripts en ellos, que no se sanean correctamente antes de mostrarlos a otros usuarios, incluyendo los administradores.

This release of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.3.4, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes of the patch linked to in the References section. Security Fix: It was found that several XML parsers used by XStream had default settings that would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-10-12 CVE Reserved
2016-11-29 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94568	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2822.html	2023-02-12
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2823.html	2023-02-12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8608	2023-02-12
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8608	2016-11-28
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386806	2016-11-28

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Jboss Bpm Suite Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Bpm Suite"				6.0.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Bpm Suite" and version "6.0.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Jboss Business Rules Management System Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Business Rules Management System"				6.0.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Business Rules Management System" and version "6.0.0"		-		Affected