Cross-site scripting - CVE-2016-1000111
Published: February 5, 2018 / Updated: February 7, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10395
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: []
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1000111
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
py3-twisted (Alpine package)
py3-twisted (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2016-1000111
py3-twisted (Alpine package) - update to 20.3.0-r0