Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-5216

Title: Microfocus Access Manager Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2014-5216

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Dec 23, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-5216: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) 4.x before 4.0.1 HF3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the location parameter in a dev.Empty action to nps/servlet/webacc, (2) the error parameter to nidp/jsp/x509err.jsp, (3) the lang parameter to sslvpn/applet_agent.jsp, or (4) the secureLoggingServersA parameter to roma/system/cntl, a different issue than CVE-2014-9412.

Impacted Vendors

microfocus 1

capmon 1

novell 1

Reference Links

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129658/NetIQ-Access-Manager-4.0-SP1-XSS-CSRF-XXE-Injection-Disclosure.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/78 https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015994 https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015996 https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20141218-2_Novell_NetIQ_Access_Manager_Multiple_Vulnerabilities_v10.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129658/NetIQ-Access-Manager-4.0-SP1-XSS-CSRF-XXE-Injection-Disclosure.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/78 https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015994 https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015996 https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20141218-2_Novell_NetIQ_Access_Manager_Multiple_Vulnerabilities_v10.txt

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-2014-5216 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35594

View Code

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 23, 2014 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.