What is CVE-2016-5978?

CVE-2016-5978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Tealeaf Customer Experience, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-09-26.

How severe is CVE-2016-5978?

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

XSS in Ibm Tealeaf Customer Experience

CVE-2016-5978

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in the web portal in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience before 8.7.1.8847 FP10, 8.8 before 8.8.0.9049 FP9, 9.0.0 and 9.0.1 before 9.0.1.1117 FP5, 9.0.1A before 9.0.1.5108_9.0.1A FP5, 9.0.2 before 9.0.2.1223 FP3, and 9.0.2A before 9.0.2.5224_9.0.2A FP3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an embedded string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5975.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (45.9th 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

Ibm Tealeaf_customer_experience — versions 8.7, 8.8, 9.0.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

psirt@us.ibm.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
psirt@us.ibm.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5978?: CVE-2016-5978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Tealeaf Customer Experience, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-09-26.
How severe is CVE-2016-5978?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.