CVE-2012-2447 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in accountmgr/adminupdate.php in the WebAdmin Portal in Netsweeper allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create administrative accounts via an add action

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in accountmgr/adminupdate.php in the WebAdmin Portal in Netsweeper allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create administrative accounts via an add action

Published Jul 9, 2012

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.68%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in accountmgr/adminupdate.php in the WebAdmin Portal in Netsweeper allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create administrative accounts via an add action.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.68% 0.00675

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00675

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.68% (0.00675)	50.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.68% (0.00675)	47.18th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00072)	19.24th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.14% (0.00135)	50.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.12% (0.00118)	45.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.11% (0.00106)	41.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.15% (0.00152)	49.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (2)

http://infosec42.blogspot.com/2012/07/cve-2012-2446-cve-2012-2447-cve-2012.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/763795
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource

Link	Providers	Tags
http://infosec42.blogspot.com/2012/07/cve-2012-2446-cve-2012-2447-cve-2012.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/763795		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 9, 2012

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2012

Link CVE-2012-2447

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-2447

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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