CVE-2012-2955

medium

Published 2012-07-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative user interface in IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.1, 2.5, 2.5.1, and 2.8 and IBM ISS Proventia Network Mail Security System allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-20368 webapps windows verified

muts · 2012-08-08

IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System 2.5 - POST File Read

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	lotus_protector_for_mail_security	`2.1`
ibm	lotus_protector_for_mail_security	`2.5`
ibm	lotus_protector_for_mail_security	`2.5.1`
ibm	lotus_protector_for_mail_security	`2.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.