CVE-2012-4685

medium
Published 2012-08-28 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Arbor Networks Peakflow SP 5.1.1 before patch 6, 5.5 before patch 4, and 5.6.0 before patch 1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to index.

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-37037 remote hardware verified text ยท 1 KB
b.saleh ยท 2012-04-03

Arbor Networks Peakflow SP 3.6.1 - 'index/' Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52881/info

Peakflow SP is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. 

https://www.example.com/index/"onmouseover="alert(666) 

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
arbornetworkspeakflow_sp5.1.1
arbornetworkspeakflow_sp5.5
arbornetworkspeakflow_sp5.6.0

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.