CVE-2016-8580

critical
Published 2016-10-28 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

PHP object injection vulnerabilities exist in multiple widget files in AlienVault OSSIM and USM before 5.3.2. These vulnerabilities allow arbitrary PHP code execution via magic methods in included classes.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40682 webapps php verified
Peter Lapp ยท 2016-11-02

Alienvault OSSIM/USM 5.3.1 - PHP Object Injection

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-41424 webapps php
Mehmet Ince ยท 2017-01-31

AlienVault OSSIM/USM < 5.3.1 - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_and_event_management{"endIncluding":"5.3.1"}
alienvaultunified_security_management{"endIncluding":"5.3.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.