CVE-2012-3835

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in AlienVault Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) 3.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) url parameter to top.php or (2) time[0][0] parameter to forensics/base_qry_main.php, which is not properly handled in an error page.

Published: 2012-07-03 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-3835 is rated Exploit Available (55.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.23%). Core evidence: 6 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-3835

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20062 exploit_db edb 2012-07-23 Exploit-DB ↗
18800 exploit_db edb 2012-04-29 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-3835

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 16.94% 2.23% -14.72%
2 2026-05-25 26.64% 16.94% -9.70%
3 2026-03-04 26.64%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-3835

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-3835

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-3835

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2012-3835 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ossim), 19 status rows across 19 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 13, not-affected 3, DNE 2, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-3835

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-3835

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
alienvault open_source_security_information_management 3.1 cpe:2.3:a:alienvault:open_source_security_information_management:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-3835

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