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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2012-1062

Severity Medium
Score 4.3/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ManageEngine Applications Manager 9.x and 10.x allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) period parameter to showHistoryData.do; (2) selectedNetwork, (3) network, or (4) group parameters to showresource.do; (5) header parameter to AlarmView.do; or (6) attName parameter to jsp/PopUp_Graph.jsp. NOTE: the Search.do/query vector is already covered by CVE-2008-1566, and the jsp/ThresholdActionConfiguration.jsp redirectto vector is already covered by CVE-2008-0474.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published