PT-2016-4880 · Micro Focus · Novell Service Desk

Pedro Ribeiro · Published 2016-04-22 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2016-1596

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Micro Focus Novell Service Desk versions prior to 7.2

Description The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain parameters, including user name, tf aClientFirstName, tf aClientLastName, ta selectedTopicContent, tf orgUnitName, tf aManufacturerFullName, tf aManufacturerName, tf aManufacturerAddress, and tf aManufacturerCity.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.2, update to version 7.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1596

Affected Products

Novell Service Desk

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39687 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136646 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1596 · Security Note
• https://novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017431 · Note
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/advisories/novell-service-desk-7.1.0.txt · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/538043/100/0/threaded · Note