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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-6555

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:54 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-6555

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Sept 2021, 21:15 UTC

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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  "id": "4f4bee52ec8180bb2ebbd29e056f15cd1fc64d44471b3dae519ac39d1bd1df10",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6555",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "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",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-6555",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-6555"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/opennms/opennms",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "45e60765ae1246ff20c3538dbb1446ce4d4e642f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:opennms:opennms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "18.0.2-1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "opennms-18.0.1-1",
            "opennms-18.0.0-1",
            "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"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6555.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "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/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6555",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "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"
}