CVE-2014-5216

medium

Published 2014-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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 NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) 4.x before 4.0.1 HF3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the location parameter in a dev.Empty action to nps/servlet/webacc, (2) the error parameter to nidp/jsp/x509err.jsp, (3) the lang parameter to sslvpn/applet_agent.jsp, or (4) the secureLoggingServersA parameter to roma/system/cntl, a different issue than CVE-2014-9412.

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-35594 webapps jsp

SEC Consult · 2014-12-23

NetIQ Access Manager 4.0 SP1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
microfocus	access_manager	`4.0`
microfocus	access_manager	`4.0.1`

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.