CVE-2016-8215
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedEMC RSA Security Analytics 10.5.3 and 10.6.2 contains fixes for a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceReflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in EMC RSA Security Analytics versions 10.5.3 and 10.6.2 allows malicious users to inject malicious scripts through user-supplied input that gets reflected back without proper sanitization, potentially compromising the affected system and other users.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 10.5= 10.5.1= 10.5.2= 10.6= 10.6.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if RSA Security Analytics is installedLocate the RSA Security Analytics application on the system, typically found in its default installation directory or listed among installed software.Affected if The product RSA Security Analytics is present on the system
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Determine the installed version of RSA Security AnalyticsAccess the product's about page, check the installation logs, or use the product's built-in version information utility to obtain the exact version number.Affected if The installed version matches 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.6, or 10.6.1
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Confirm the web interface is accessibleVerify that the RSA Security Analytics web interface is reachable by attempting to access the application's URL endpoint.Affected if The web interface is exposed and accepts user-supplied input through URL parameters
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Check for user input reflection in web parametersReview the application web logs or manually test URL parameters by supplying a benign test string to see if it is reflected back in the response without encoding.Affected if User-supplied input is reflected in the response without proper sanitization or encoding
A system is affected if RSA Security Analytics is installed with a version equal to 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.6, or 10.6.1 and the web interface with user input reflection is accessible.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply the vendor patches for RSA Security Analytics 10.5.3 and 10.6.2. Implement proper input validation and output encoding on all user-facing parameters to prevent XSS injection.
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- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing6.0 h
- Review / QA4.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2016-8215 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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