Critical severity · published Mar 28, 2017
CVE-2016-9124
Revive Adserver before 3.2.3 suffers from Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
9.8
CVSS
2.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Revive Adserver before 3.2.3 suffers from Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. The login page of Revive Adserver is vulnerable to password-guessing attacks. An account lockdown feature was considered, but rejected to avoid introducing service disruptions to regular users during such attacks. A random delay has instead been introduced as a countermeasure in case of password failures, along with a system to discourage parallel brute forcing. These systems will effectively allow the valid users to log in to the adserver, even while an attack is in progress.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.2% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Revive Adserver · Revive-adserver
through 3.2.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9124
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9124
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/commit/847941390f5b3310d51b07c92ec91cc1f4cc82c9
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/96115
Patch
https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2016-001/
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