CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9605
9.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.4 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
WebUpgrade in Netsweeper before 3.1.10, 4.0.x before 4.0.9, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create a system backup tarball, restart the server, or stop the filters on the server via a ' (single quote) character in the login and password parameters to webupgrade/webupgrade.php. NOTE: this was originally reported as an SQL injection vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.
Affected configurations
• netsweeper netsweeper (>= 3.1.0 < 3.1.10)
• netsweeper netsweeper (>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.9)
• netsweeper netsweeper (>= 4.1.0 < 4.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://helpdesk.netsweeper.com/docs/3.1/release_notes/netsweeper_releasenotes/3_1_10_0_release_notes/3.1.10_release_notes.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://helpdesk.netsweeper.com/docs/4.0/release_notes/netsweeper_releasenotes/4_0_9_release_notes/4.0.9_release_notes.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://helpdesk.netsweeper.com/docs/4.1/release_notes/netsweeper_releasenotes/4_1_release_notes/4_1_2_release_notes/4.1.2_release_notes.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37928/ Exploit
- https://helpdesk.netsweeper.com/docs/3.1/release_notes/netsweeper_releasenotes/3_1_10_0_release_notes/3.1.10_release_notes.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://helpdesk.netsweeper.com/docs/4.0/release_notes/netsweeper_releasenotes/4_0_9_release_notes/4.0.9_release_notes.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://helpdesk.netsweeper.com/docs/4.1/release_notes/netsweeper_releasenotes/4_1_release_notes/4_1_2_release_notes/4.1.2_release_notes.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37928/ Exploit