CVE-2014-9618

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-17. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Elevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 73%
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 73%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017 — isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

The Client Filter Admin portal 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 subsequently create arbitrary profiles via a showdeny action to the default URL.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
78
EG Risk 78/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation73% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability30% × 15%
EchelonGraph's default before algorithm v3.4: CISA had not published Automatable for this CVE.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Isolate the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.
EPSS PROB
73%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Isolate the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

Published

September 19, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
No fix on record since 2017.
generic

Netsweeper 4.0.8 - Authentication Bypass (via New Profile Creation) - PHP webapps Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37933/
generic

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133034/Netsweeper-Bypass-XSS-Redirection-SQL-Injection-Execution.html

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

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  49. 2026-05-20 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j6qh-hxp9-rr4j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No fix is on record, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2014/CVE-2014-9618.yaml
    Published Dec 7, 2021

    Netsweeper - Authentication Bypass

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-37933
    Published Aug 21, 2015

    Netsweeper 4.0.8 - Authentication Bypass (via New Profile Creation)

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2014-9618?
CVE-2014-9618 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 19, 2017. The Client Filter Admin portal 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 subsequently create arbitrary profiles via a showdeny action to the default URL.
When was CVE-2014-9618 made public?
CVE-2014-9618 was made public on August 11, 2015: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 19, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2014-9618 actively exploited?
CVE-2014-9618 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 73% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2014-9618?
CVE-2014-9618 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2014-9618?
No fix for CVE-2014-9618 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2017, and EchelonGraph holds no vendor advisory for it. Isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

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