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CVE-2012-5990

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5990 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities found in the Health Monitor Login pages of Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) and Wireless Control System (WCS). These flaws allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity, requiring no authentication, and potentially leading to information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:prime_network_control_system:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:wireless_control_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

envoyvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
mozillavendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
pythonvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

Vendor Advisories (3)

mozillallm-mozilla-033aff4669e5aae7MEDIUM

[R1] Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) / Wireless Control System (WCS) login.jsp requestUrl Parameter Reflected XSS

Sep 3, 2013
envoyllm-envoy-153ff2b4a8e269b1MEDIUM

[R1] Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) / Wireless Control System (WCS) login.jsp requestUrl Parameter Reflected XSS

Sep 3, 2013
pythonllm-python-dbef7425ddab6692MEDIUM

[R1] Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) / Wireless Control System (WCS) login.jsp requestUrl Parameter Reflected XSS

Sep 3, 2013

References

kb.cert.org / vuls/id/830316
US Government Resource