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CVE-2007-5472
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Server component in CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) before 8.0.0.93…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Server component in CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) before 8.0.0.93 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via requests that are written to logs for later display in the log viewer.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20071019 [CAID 35754]: CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS) Server Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/cahips/infodocs/cahips-secnotice.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1018839 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ca-hips-log-xss(37285) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37998 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 26134 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 27301 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-5447 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-5472)Record last updated .