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FKIE_CVE-2016-5751

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-03-23 06:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:49

Severity

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

An unfiltered finalizer target URL in the SAML processing feature in Identity Server in NetIQ Access Manager 4.1 before 4.1.2 HF1 and 4.2 before 4.2.2 could be used to trigger XSS and leak authentication credentials.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@opentext.com	https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017808
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017808

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
netiq	access_manager	4.1
netiq	access_manager	4.1
netiq	access_manager	4.1
netiq	access_manager	4.2
netiq	access_manager	4.2

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CVE-2016-5751 (GCVE-0-2016-5751)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-23 06:36 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:08

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

unfiltered finalizer target URL

Assigner

microfocus

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017808	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	NetIQ Access Manager	Affected: NetIQ Access Manager

Date Public

2017-03-23 00:00

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