What is CVE-2016-5236?

CVE-2016-5236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 Websafe Alert Server, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-07-01.

How severe is CVE-2016-5236?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in F5 Websafe Alert Server

CVE-2016-5236

Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in F5 WebSafe Dashboard 3.9.5 and earlier, aka F5 WebSafe Alert Server, allow privileged authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML when creating a new user, account or signature.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (46.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

F5 Websafe_alert_server
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5236?: CVE-2016-5236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 Websafe Alert Server, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-07-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-5236?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.