Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-5217

Title: Microfocus Access Manager Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-5217.

CWE Category CWE-352
Published Date Dec 23, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-5217: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in nps/servlet/webacc in the Administration Console server in NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) 4.x before 4.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrative password via an fw.SetPassword action.

Impacted Vendors

N
novell 1
M
microfocus 1
C
capmon 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=7015997 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=7015997 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
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-5217 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.