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CVE-2016-3079

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3079 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Web UI of Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5.7. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various input fields, including PATH_INFO, the label parameter, or names of snapshot tags and system groups. With a CVSS v3 score of 6.1 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in common repositories like Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spacewalk-java:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 26,209 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.3.8-134.el6sat
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-3079Moderate

spacewalk-java: Multiple XSS issues in WebUI

Mar 29, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0590.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/7920542f
github.com / spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/7b9ff9ad
github.com / spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/982b11c9
github.com / spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/b6491eba