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CVE-2016-1000229

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1000229 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Swagger UI, affecting products like Red Hat JBoss Fuse and OpenShift. This flaw allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts into key names, which are then executed in the victim's browser. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and has a low impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L), but could lead to session hijacking or defacement. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:smartbear:swagger-ui:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_fuse:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:2.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0404 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: swagger-uiFixed in: 2.2.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6Fixed in: hawtio-swagger-ui
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-fuse

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-h8wp-wgcq-qhrfmedium

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in swagger-ui

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2016-1000229Moderate

swagger-ui: cross-site scripting in key names

Jul 21, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0868
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
raw.githubusercontent.com / distributedweaknessfiling/cvelist/master/2016/1000xxx/CVE-2016-1000229.json
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97580
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry