What is CVE-2016-9271?

CVE-2016-9271 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cloudera Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-11-26.

How severe is CVE-2016-9271?

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

XSS in Cloudera Manager

CVE-2016-9271

Cloudera Manager 5.7.x before 5.7.6, 5.8.x before 5.8.4, and 5.9.x before 5.9.1 allows XSS in the help search feature.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Cloudera Cloudera_manager — versions 5.9.0
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-2016-9271?: CVE-2016-9271 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cloudera Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-11-26.
How severe is CVE-2016-9271?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.