CVE-2014-9611

published 2017-09-19

CVE-2014-9611: Netsweeper before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create arbitrary accounts and policies via a request to webadmin/nslam/index.php.

Priority P2 73 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

Netsweeper before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create arbitrary accounts and policies via a request to webadmin/nslam/index.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
netsweeper	netsweeper	<= 4.0.4	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /webadmin/nslam/index.php↗

port 8080↗

url http:/netsweeper:8080/webadmin/nslam/index.php?username=secuid0&password=secuid0&ip=127.0.0.1&theme=Global%20Web%20Admin%20Theme&groupname=↗

• → Detect unauthenticated GET/POST requests to /webadmin/nslam/index.php with username, password, ip, theme, and groupname parameters — this is the authentication bypass endpoint for arbitrary account and policy creation. ↗
• → Monitor for requests to webadmin/nslam/index.php from unauthenticated sessions, as the vulnerability allows bypassing authentication entirely via a direct request to this path. ↗

• · Vulnerability affects Netsweeper versions before 4.0.5; version 3.0.6 is explicitly confirmed vulnerable. The fix was confirmed in version 4.0.5. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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