A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Netsweeper 4.0.8. Affected is an unknown part of the file webupgrade.php. The manipulation of the argument login with the input value step=&login='&password='&show_advanced_output= leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity.

The weakness was disclosed 08/21/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at helpdesk.netsweeper.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-9605 since 01/16/2015. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 270 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:webupgrade.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 3.1.10, 4.0.9 or 4.1.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (105890) and Exploit-DB (37928). The entry 77471 is pretty similar.

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