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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2016-6519 json

Openstack Manila Persistent XSS in Metadata field

published 2017-04-21 9 y ago modified 2026-07-06 4 mo ago also GHSA-vq76-5ghr-9p4v , PYSEC-2026-662 , EUVD-2022-5403

cvss
5.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "Shares" overview in Openstack Manila before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Metadata field in the "Create Share" form.

Patch / fix

  • pypi manila-ui 2.5.1
  • manila-ui Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.1-0

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6519

  • openstack-manila-ui openstack 7 1.0.1-3.el7ost
  • openstack-manila-ui openstack 8 1.2.0-2.el7ost
  • openstack-manila-ui openstack 9 2.1.0-2.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2115RHSA-2016:2116RHSA-2016:2117

  • openstack-horizon-plugin-manila-ui OpenStack Cloud 6 1.2.1~a0~dev2-3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2457-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-6519 updated cvss 4.1

openstack-manila-ui: persistent XSS in metadata field

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 openstack-manila-ui 1.0.1-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2115
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) openstack-manila-ui 1.2.0-2.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2116
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 openstack-manila-ui 2.1.0-2.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2117
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) openstack-manila-ui
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi manila-ui
<2.5.1
2.5.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.