CVE-2012-2996 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in saveAccountSubTab.imss in Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1-Build_Win32_1394 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create admin accounts via a saveAuth action

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in saveAccountSubTab.imss in Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1-Build_Win32_1394 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create admin accounts via a saveAuth action

Published Sep 17, 2012

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.67%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in saveAccountSubTab.imss in Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1-Build_Win32_1394 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create admin accounts via a saveAuth action.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.67% 0.01666

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

EPSS probability 0.01666

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.67% (0.01666)	75.87th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.67% (0.01666)	73.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 14, 2025	1.23% (0.01230)	78.27th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.19% (0.00193)	39.17th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.41% (0.00406)	74.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 13, 2024	0.46% (0.00457)	74.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.68% (0.00677)	79.30th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.68% (0.00677)	76.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/50620
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/471364
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNExploitUS Government Resource
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027544
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/50620		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/471364		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNExploitUS Government Resource
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027544		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner certcc

Published Sep 17, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 30, 2012

Link CVE-2012-2996

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-2996

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-2996