Cross-site scripting in ActiveMQ - CVE-2016-0782
Published: August 5, 2016 / Updated: September 14, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40172
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0782
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. The vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and consequently obtain sensitive information from a Java memory dump via vectors related to creating a queue.
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
ActiveMQ
How to mitigate CVE-2016-0782
Install update from vendor's website.
ActiveMQ - addressed in versions 5.11.4, 5.12.3, 5.13.1
External References
- http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2016-0782-announcement.txt
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136215/Apache-ActiveMQ-5.13.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537760/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035328
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1424
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317516
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2@%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E