NetIQ's vulnerability footprint spans a moderately sized portfolio of identity, access, and directory management products widely deployed in enterprise environments, including Access Manager, Identity Manager, and eDirectory. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew toward serious outcomes, with an elevated share reaching critical severity, reflecting the sensitivity of identity and authentication infrastructure to logic flaws and data exposure. The exposure recurs across product lines through weakness classes centered on improper input handling in web-facing components, information disclosure, and sensitive-data logging—patterns characteristic of complex identity platforms where authentication boundaries and data handling demands create recurring validation challenges. Defenders should prioritize NetIQ product updates in identity-tier infrastructure and review configurations that expose these systems to untrusted networks. Current severity and exploitation activity are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Netiq over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (70 CVEs).
70 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2017-14803CRITICAL In NetIQ Access Manager 4.3 and 4.4, a bug exists in Identity Server when accessing a basic SSO connector and downloading the BasicSSO connector plugins on IE11 where an attacker c | Jan 20, 2018 | 9.8 | 47 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-9285CRITICAL NetIQ eDirectory before 9.0 SP4 did not enforce login restrictions when "ebaclient" was used, allowing unpermitted access to eDirectory services. | Mar 2, 2018 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-9278CRITICAL The NetIQ Identity Manager Oracle EBS driver before 4.0.2.0 sent EBS logs containing the driver authentication password, potentially disclosing this to attackers able to read the E | Mar 2, 2018 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-7434CRITICAL In the JDBC driver of NetIQ Identity Manager before 4.6 sending out incorrect XML configurations could result in passwords being logged into exception logfiles. | Mar 2, 2018 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-7432CRITICAL Novell iManager 2.7.x before 2.7 SP7 Patch 10 HF1 and NetIQ iManager 3.x before 3.0.3.1 have a webshell upload vulnerability. | May 3, 2017 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-5757CRITICAL iManager Admin Console in NetIQ Access Manager 4.1 before 4.1.2 Hot Fix 1 and 4.2 before 4.2.2 was vulnerable to iFrame manipulation attacks, which could allow remote users to gain | Mar 23, 2017 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-1343CRITICAL PAM exposure enabling unauthenticated access to remote host | Mar 6, 2018 | 9.8 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-1342CRITICAL A Vulnerability exists on Admin Console where an attacker can upload files to the Admin Console server, and potentially execute them. This impacts NetIQ Access Manager versions 4.3 | Jan 26, 2018 | 9.8 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-7429HIGH The certificate upload in NetIQ eDirectory PKI plugin before 8.8.8 Patch 10 Hotfix 1 could be abused to upload JSP code which could be used by authenticated attackers to execute JS | Mar 2, 2018 | 8.8 | 27 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-7426CRITICAL The NetIQ Identity Manager Plugins before 4.6.1 contained various XML External XML Entity (XXE) handling flaws that could be used by attackers to leak information or cause denial o | Mar 1, 2018 | 9.1 | 27 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (70 CVEs).
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