CVE-2012-6493

medium
Published 2014-02-04 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Rapid7 Nexpose Security Console before 5.5.4 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that delete scan data and sites via a request to data/site/delete.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-2155#release1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rapid7nexpose{"endIncluding":"5.5.3"}
rapid7nexpose5.4
rapid7nexpose5.4.1
rapid7nexpose5.4.2
rapid7nexpose5.4.3
rapid7nexpose5.4.4
rapid7nexpose5.4.5
rapid7nexpose5.4.6
rapid7nexpose5.4.7
rapid7nexpose5.4.8
rapid7nexpose5.4.9
rapid7nexpose5.4.10
rapid7nexpose5.4.11
rapid7nexpose5.4.12
rapid7nexpose5.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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