CVE-2018-6502
MFSBGN03824 rev.1 - ArcSight Management Center, Insufficient Access Control, Reflected Cross Site Scripting, Access Control vulnerability, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Unauthenticated File Download, Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microfocus
Description
A potential Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Security vulnerability has been identified in ArcSight Management Center (ArcMC) in all versions prior to 2.81. This vulnerability could be exploited to allow for Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS).
Timeline
ID reserved
By microfocus
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| microfocusCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
Micro Focus · ArcSight Management Center
- affected all versions prior to 2.81
What to do
Exploitation: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
References (1)
- https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/document/-/facetsearch/document/KM03245142 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- 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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