CVE-2014-5217

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

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.

Affected products

Micro Focus NetIQ Access Manager: 4.0, 4.0.1

References

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

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