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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-8348 json

An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Emerson Liebert SiteScan Web Version 6.5, and prior.

published 2017-02-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9196

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Emerson Liebert SiteScan Web Version 6.5, and prior. An attacker may enter malicious input to Liebert SiteScan through a weakly configured XML parser causing the application to execute arbitrary code or disclose file contents from a server or connected network.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-16-334-01 updated cvss 7.5

Emerson Liebert SiteScan XML External Entity Vulnerability

  • Emerson SiteScan Web <=6.5
    affected: mitigation “Emerson recommends that affected users update Liebert SiteScan with the following patches: SiteScan Web Version 6.1, the patch file is: WS61_Security_Update.update”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Emerson Liebert SiteScan 6.5, and prior

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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