CVE-2016-5756

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple components of the web tools in NetIQ Access Manager 4.1 before 4.1.2 Hot Fix 1 and 4.2 before 4.2.2 were vulnerable to Reflected Cross Site Scripting attacks which could be used to hijack user sessions: nps/servlet/frameservice, nps/servlet/webacc, roma/admin/cntl, roma/jsp/admin/appliance/devicedetail_edit.jsp, roma/jsp/admin/managementip/mgmt_ip_details_frameset.jsp, roma/jsp/admin/managementip/mgmt_ip_details_middleframe.jsp, roma/jsp/volsc/monitoring/appliance.jsp, and roma/jsp/volsc/monitoring/graph.jsp.

Affected products

NetIQ Access Manager: 4.1, 4.1-sp1, 4.1-sp2, 4.2, 4.2-sp1

References

https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017813
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017813

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