Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3238

Title: Sophos Unified Threat Management Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3238.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jul 09, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3238: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Backup/Restore component in WebAdmin in Astaro Security Gateway before 8.305 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Comment (optional)" field.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-06/0206.html http://security.inshell.net/advisory/27 http://www.astaro.com/en-uk/blog/up2date/8305 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-06/0206.html http://security.inshell.net/advisory/27 http://www.astaro.com/en-uk/blog/up2date/8305

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3238 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 09, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.