CVE-2012-4604

medium
Published 2012-08-23 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The TRITON management console in Websense Web Security before 7.6 Hotfix 24 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read arbitrary reports via a crafted uid field, in conjunction with a crafted userRoles field, in a cookie, as demonstrated by a request to explorer_wse/favorites.exe.

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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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
websensewebsense_web_security{"endIncluding":"7.6"}
websensewebsense_web_security6.3.0
websensewebsense_web_security6.3.1
websensewebsense_web_security6.3.2
websensewebsense_web_security6.3.3
websensewebsense_web_security7.0
websensewebsense_web_security7.1
websensewebsense_web_security7.1.1
websensewebsense_web_security7.5
websensewebsense_web_security7.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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