CVE-2010-3272
accounts/ValidateAnswers in the security-questions implementation in ZOHO ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus before 4.5 Build 4500 makes it…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
accounts/ValidateAnswers in the security-questions implementation in ZOHO ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus before 4.5 Build 4500 makes it easier for remote attackers to reset user passwords, and consequently obtain access to arbitrary user accounts, via a modified (1) Hide_Captcha or (2) quesList parameter in a validateAll action.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus 4.4 - POST Manipulation Security Question (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 35330webapps, phppublished 10 Feb 2011Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 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)
- 4.0% · top 9.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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
- 43241 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0392 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20110210 CORE-2011-0103 - ZOHO ManageEngine ADSelfService multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 8089 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- adselfservice-pwr-weak-security(65350) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/zoho-manageengine-vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 46331 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 70870 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2010-3271 (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-2010-3272)Record last updated .