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CVE-2012-4604

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

The TRITON management console in Websense Web Security before 7.6 Hotfix 24 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read arbitrary reports via a crafted uid field, in conjunction with a crafted userRoles field, in a cookie, as demonstrated by a request to explorer_wse/favorites.exe.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Websense — Websense WEB Security

CWEs

References

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