CVE-2016-8608

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

JBoss BRMS 6 and BPM Suite 6 are vulnerable to a stored XSS via business process editor. The flaw is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-5398. Remote, authenticated attackers that have privileges to create business processes can store scripts in them, which are not properly sanitized before showing to other users, including admins.

Affected products

RedHat Jboss Bpm Suite: 6.0.0
JBoss BRMS: 6.0.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2822.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2823.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94568
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8608
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2822.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2823.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94568
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8608

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