How severe is CVE-2016-8218?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of CRITICAL with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-8218?

This is classified as CWE-20, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2016-8218

CRITICAL Year: 2016

CVSS v3 Score

9.8

Critical

CVSS v2 Score

7.5

High

Weakness Type

CWE-20

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Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation routing-release versions prior to 0.142.0 and cf-release versions 203 to 231. Incomplete validation logic in JSON Web Token (JWT) libraries can allow unprivileged attackers to impersonate other users to the routing API, aka an "Unauthenticated JWT signing algorithm in routing" issue.

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CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

Snoopy before 2.0.0 has a security hole in exec cURL

CWE-202002

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CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

Varnish 2.0.6 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite ...

CWE-202009

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CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

thttpd 2.25b0 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite ...

CWE-202009

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CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

Transmission before 1.92 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a large number of tr arguments in a magnet link.

CWE-202010