CVE-2016-2058
Status: ModifiedMedium (5.4)—
Severity5.4Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability1.22 %higher than 68% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Xymon 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.25 allow (1) remote Xymon clients to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a status-message, which is not properly handled in the "detailed status" page, or (2) remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an acknowledgement message, which is not properly handled in the "status" page.
CVSS
- Base score
- 5.4
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 1.22 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 68
- Score date
- 10/24/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (2)
CWEs
- CWE-79
References
Show 8 references
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135758/Xymon-4.3.x-Buffer-Overflow-Code-Execution-Information-Disclosure.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3495
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537522/100/0/threaded
- https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7892/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135758/Xymon-4.3.x-Buffer-Overflow-Code-Execution-Information-Disclosure.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3495
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537522/100/0/threaded
- https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7892/
Raw JSON (NVD)
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