CVE-2012-2996

medium

Published 2012-09-17 · 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

7.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in saveAccountSubTab.imss in Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1-Build_Win32_1394 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create admin accounts via a saveAuth 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-21319 webapps aix

modpr0be · 2012-09-14

Trend Micro Interscan Messaging Security Suite - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting / Cross-Site Request Forgery

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
trendmicro	interscan_messaging_security_suite	`7.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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

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