CVE-2014-9611

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—Exploit

Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.0

Exploitation probability13 %higher than 96% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

Netsweeper before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create arbitrary accounts and policies via a request to webadmin/nslam/index.php.

CVSS

Base score: 9.8
Version: 3.0
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 13 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 96
Score date: 10/28/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Netsweeper 3.0.6 - Authentication Bypass (8/21/2015)

Affected technologies (1)

Netsweeper — Netsweeper

CWEs

CWE-287

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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