What is CVE-2014-9611?

CVE-2014-9611 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netsweeper, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-09-19.

How severe is CVE-2014-9611?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2014-9611 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Netsweeper

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.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.127 (95.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Netsweeper
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9611?: CVE-2014-9611 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netsweeper, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-09-19.
How severe is CVE-2014-9611?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2014-9611 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.