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HistoryJan 18, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2016-6896

2017-01-1800:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
11

7.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

5.5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

0.327 Low

EPSS

Percentile

97.0%

Directory traversal vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in
wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress 4.5.3 allows remote
authenticated users to cause a denial of service or read certain text files
via a … (dot dot) in the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, as
demonstrated by /dev/random read operations that deplete the entropy pool.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu16.04noarchwordpress< anyUNKNOWN

7.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

5.5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

0.327 Low

EPSS

Percentile

97.0%