THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-9488
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2016-9488

Applications Manager vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.8%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
ManageEngine Applications Manager versions 12 and 13 before build 13200 suffer from remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated attacker is able to access the URL /servlet/MenuHandlerServlet, which is vulnerable to SQL injection. The attacker could extract users' password hashes, which are MD5 hashes without salt, and, depending on the database type and its configuration, could also execute operating system commands using SQL queries.
Affected vendor
Manageengine
Affected product
Applications Manager
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-06-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-9488

  • Confirm whether Manageengine Applications Manager is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-9488.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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