Cross-site scripting in Orion Network Performance Monitor - CVE-2012-2577
Published: August 12, 2012 / Updated: January 3, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43745
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2577
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: SolarWinds
Affected software:
Orion Network Performance Monitor
Orion Network Performance Monitor
Detailed vulnerability description
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) before 10.3.1 when processing the (1) syslocation, (2) syscontact, or (3) sysName field of an snmpd.conf file. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2577
Install update from vendor's website.