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CVE-2016-8608 json

JBoss BRMS 6 and BPM Suite 6 are vulnerable to a stored XSS via business process editor.

published 2018-08-01 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9455

cvss
5.4
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

JBoss BRMS 6 and BPM Suite 6 are vulnerable to a stored XSS via business process editor. The flaw is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-5398. Remote, authenticated attackers that have privileges to create business processes can store scripts in them, which are not properly sanitized before showing to other users, including admins.

Vendor advisories

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

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-8608 updated cvss 5.4

Stored XSS in business process editor

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 process-editor process-editor Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 process-editor process-editor
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2822
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2823

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat BRMS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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