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CVE-2012-5956

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ManageEngine AssetExplorer 5.6 before service pack 5614 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via fields in XML asset data to discoveryServlet/WsDiscoveryServlet, as demonstrated by the DocRoot/Computer_Information/output element.

Affected products

• Manage Engine Asset Explorer Agent: through 5.6

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/571068
• http://www.manageengine.com/products/asset-explorer/sp-readme.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/571068
• http://www.manageengine.com/products/asset-explorer/sp-readme.html

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