Medium
Security advisory
OpenNMS version 18.0.1 and prior are vulnerable to a stored XSS issue due to insufficient filtering of SNMP trap supplied data. By creating a malicious SNMP trap, an attacker can store an XSS payload which will trigger when a user of the web UI views the events list page. This issue was fixed in version 18.0.2, released on September 20, 2016.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6555
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OpenNMS version 18.0.1 and prior are vulnerable to a stored XSS issue due to insufficient filtering of SNMP trap supplied data. By creating a malicious SNMP trap, an attacker can store an XSS payload which will trigger when a user of the web UI views the events list page. This issue was fixed in version 18.0.2, released on September 20, 2016.
osv:CVE-2016-6555
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6555",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2016-6555",
"summary": "OpenNMS version 18.0.1 and prior are vulnerable to a stored XSS issue due to insufficient filtering of SNMP trap supplied data. By creating a malicious SNMP trap, an attacker can store an XSS payload which will trigger when a user of the web UI views the events list page. This issue was fixed in version 18.0.2, released on September 20, 2016.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6555",
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"severity": "medium",
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"aliases": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
}
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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{
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}
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"opennms-17.1.1-3",
"opennms-17.1.1-2",
"opennms-17.1.1-1",
"opennms-17.1.0-1",
"opennms-17.0.0-1",
"opennms-1.13.2-1",
"opennms-1.11.3-1",
"space-integration-12.2-code-freeze",
"opennms-1.11.1-1",
"opennms-1.9.93-1",
"opennms-1.9.4-1",
"opennms-1.9.0-1"
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}
}
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:25.916522340Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/OpenNMS/opennms/pull/1019",
"https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2016/11/15/r7-2016-24-opennms-stored-xss-via-snmp-cve-2016-6555-cve-2016-6556/"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 380300,
"published_at": "2021-09-24T21:15:07.067+00:00"
}