CVE-2012-2626 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in the cgi-bin/admin.cgi component of Plixer Scrutinizer (also known as Dell SonicWALL Scrutinizer) versions prior to 9.5.0. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create administrative accounts by leveraging a missing token authentication requirement for the userprefs action. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a potential impact of unauthorized account creation. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit modules exist in Metasploit and ExploitDB, indicating readily available exploit code, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 9.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sonicwall:scrutinizer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.