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CVE-2016-5737

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Gerrit configuration in the Openstack Puppet module for Gerrit (aka puppet-gerrit) improperly marks text/html as a safe mimetype, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted review.

Affected products

• OpenStack Puppet-Gerrit: all versions

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/22/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91352
• https://github.com/openstack-infra/puppet-gerrit/commit/8573c2ee172f66c1667de49685c88fdc8883ca8b
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/22/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91352
• https://github.com/openstack-infra/puppet-gerrit/commit/8573c2ee172f66c1667de49685c88fdc8883ca8b

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