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CVE-2016-4856
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5 and Splunk Light 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5 allows attacker with…
Medium4.8EPSS 0.98%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5 and Splunk Light 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5 allows attacker with administrator rights to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.98% · top 38% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
- Cross-site scripting
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Splunk Inc. · Splunk Enterprise
- affected 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5
Splunk Inc. · Splunk Light
- affected 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5
References (3)
- https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPN9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- JVN#71462075 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- 92990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .