VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5003

medium
Published 2012-09-19 · 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
6.8

Description

nxapplet.jar in No Machine NX Web Companion 3.x and earlier does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) SiteUrl or (2) RedirectUrl parameter that points to a Trojan Horse client.zip update file.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nomachinenx_web_companion{"endIncluding":"3.5.0-2"}
nomachinenx_web_companion1.5.0
nomachinenx_web_companion2.0.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion2.1.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion3.0.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion3.0.0-2
nomachinenx_web_companion3.0.0-3
nomachinenx_web_companion3.0.0-4
nomachinenx_web_companion3.0.0-5
nomachinenx_web_companion3.1.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion3.2.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion3.3.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion3.3.0-2
nomachinenx_web_companion3.4.0-1
nomachinenx_web_companion3.4.0-2
nomachinenx_web_companion3.4.0-3
nomachinenx_web_companion3.5.0-1

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.