CVE-2012-3835

medium

Published 2012-07-03 · 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 AlienVault Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) 3.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) url parameter to top.php or (2) time[0][0] parameter to forensics/base_qry_main.php, which is not properly handled in an error page.

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-20062 webapps php verified

muts · 2012-07-23

Alienvault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) 3.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting / Blind SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-18800 webapps php verified

Stefan Schurtz · 2012-04-29

Alienvault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) 3.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
alienvault	open_source_security_information_management	`3.1`

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.