CVE-2016-1926

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the charts module in Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) 6.x before 6.0.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the aggregate_type parameter in a get_aggregate command to omp.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Greenbone OS: 3.1.1, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.1.8, 3.1.9, 3.1.10 (+13)
Greenbone Security Assistant: 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5 (+2)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183371.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184478.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135328/OpenVAS-Greenbone-Security-Assistant-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.greenbone.net/technology/gbsa2016-01.html
http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20160113.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537335/100/0/threaded
https://en.internetwache.org/cve-2016-1926-xss-in-the-greenbone-security-assistant-20-01-2016/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183371.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184478.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135328/OpenVAS-Greenbone-Security-Assistant-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.greenbone.net/technology/gbsa2016-01.html
http://www.openvas.org/OVSA20160113.html

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