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CVE-2012-2955
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative user interface in IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.1,…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.5%
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- certcc
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative user interface in IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.1, 2.5, 2.5.1, and 2.8 and IBM ISS Proventia Network Mail Security System allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 51 days later
· 51 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 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.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 84014 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21605626 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#659791 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 49897 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 54486 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- lotus-protector-xss(76798) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (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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