CVE-2014-9605: Netsweeper

High severity, CVSS 9.4. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WebUpgrade in Netsweeper before 3.1.10, 4.0.x before 4.0.9, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create a system backup tarball, restart the server, or stop the filters on the server via a ' (single quote) character in the login and password parameters to webupgrade/webupgrade.php. NOTE: this was originally reported as an SQL injection vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.

Affected products

• Netsweeper Netsweeper: from 3.1.0, before 3.1.10 (fixed in 3.1.10); from 4.0.0, before 4.0.9 (fixed in 4.0.9); from 4.1.0, before 4.1.2 (fixed in 4.1.2)

Published 2015-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.