CVE-2016-6517 is a critical directory traversal vulnerability affecting Liferay 5.1.0, allowing remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction by injecting encoded dot-dot sequences into the minifierBundleDir parameter of barebone.jsp. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.