CVE-2016-9124
CRITICALEPSS 81th pctlDescription
Revive Adserver before 3.2.3 suffers from Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. The login page of Revive Adserver is vulnerable to password-guessing attacks. An account lockdown feature was considered, but rejected to avoid introducing service disruptions to regular users during such attacks. A random delay has instead been introduced as a countermeasure in case of password failures, along with a system to discourage parallel brute forcing. These systems will effectively allow the valid users to log in to the adserver, even while an attack is in progress.
How to fix
No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.
Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.
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CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 81% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-17240 | Critical | 9.8 | 40% | - | - |
| CVE-2023-29301 | High | 7.5 | 32% | - | - |
| CVE-2023-22960 | High | 7.5 | 28% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2020-15906 | Critical | 9.8 | 27% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2016-9361 | Critical | 9.8 | 20% | - | - |
| CVE-2024-39225 | Critical | 9.8 | 15% | - | - |
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