CVE-2017-14956

MEDIUM

AlienVault Unified Security Management < 5.4.2 - Authenticated Cross-Site Request Forgery via Report Export

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2017-14956. PoCs published by Julien Ahrens.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in AlienVault USM 5.4.2, allowing an attacker to trick an authenticated user into sending sensitive compliance reports to an arbitrary email address. The PoC includes a crafted HTML form that submits a malicious request to the vulnerable endpoint.

Description

AlienVault USM v5.4.2 and earlier offers authenticated users the functionality of exporting generated reports via the "/ossim/report/wizard_email.php" script. Besides offering an export via a local download, the script also offers the possibility to send out any report via email to a given address (either in PDF or XLS format). Since there is no anti-CSRF token protecting this functionality, it is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Julien Ahrens · textwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42988

This exploit demonstrates a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in AlienVault USM 5.4.2, allowing an attacker to trick an authenticated user into sending sensitive compliance reports to an arbitrary email address. The PoC includes a crafted HTML form that submits a malicious request to the vulnerable endpoint.

Classification
Working Poc 100%
Attack Type
Info Leak
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: AlienVault USM 5.4.2
Auth required
Prerequisites: Authenticated session in AlienVault USM · Victim must visit a malicious webpage
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42988/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101284
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Oct/32
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541342/100/0/threaded

Scores

CVSS v3 5.7
EPSS 0.0186
EPSS Percentile 76.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (1)
alienvault/unified_security_management < 5.4.2
Published Oct 18, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026