CVE-2014-9605

CriticalCVSS 9.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

WebUpgrade in Netsweeper before 3.1.10, 4.0.x before 4.0.9, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create a system backup tarball, restart the server, or stop the filters on the server via a ' (single quote) character in the login and password parameters to webupgrade/webupgrade.php. NOTE: this was originally reported as an SQL injection vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.4/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 4, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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