CVE-2014-5217 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in nps/servlet/webacc in the Administration Console server in NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) 4.x before 4.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrative password via an fw.SetPassword action

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in nps/servlet/webacc in the Administration Console server in NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) 4.x before 4.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrative password via an fw.SetPassword action

Published Dec 23, 2014

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.37%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in nps/servlet/webacc in the Administration Console server in NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) 4.x before 4.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrative password via an fw.SetPassword action.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.37% 0.01367

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

EPSS probability 0.01367

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.37% (0.01367)	70.84th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.37% (0.01367)	68.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.19% (0.00186)	38.17th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.46% (0.00460)	76.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.46% (0.00460)	74.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.46% (0.00460)	71.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (4)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129658/NetIQ-Access-Manager-4.0-SP1-XSS-CSRF-XXE-Injection-Disclosure.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/78
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015997
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitVendor Advisory
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20141218-2_Novell_NetIQ_Access_Manager_Multiple_Vulnerabilities_v10.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129658/NetIQ-Access-Manager-4.0-SP1-XSS-CSRF-XXE-Injection-Disclosure.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/78		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015997		x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitVendor Advisory
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20141218-2_Novell_NetIQ_Access_Manager_Multiple_Vulnerabilities_v10.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 23, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 13, 2014

Link CVE-2014-5217

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-5217

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-5217