CVE-2017-14087
A Host Header Injection vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan XG (12.0) may allow an attacker to spoof a particular Host header, allowing the attacker to render arbitrary links that point to a malicious website with poisoned Host header webpages.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 8.3%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
A Host Header Injection vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan XG (12.0) may allow an attacker to spoof a particular Host header, allowing the attacker to render arbitrary links that point to a malicious website with poisoned Host header webpages.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 8.33% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 28 September 2017
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- trendmicro/officescan
- Source
- security@trendmicro.com
EPSS moved from 7.1% on 21 September 2026 to 8.3% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/CVE-2017-14087-TRENDMICRO-OFFICESCAN-XG-HOST-HEADER-INJECTION.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/144404/TrendMicro-OfficeScan-11.0-XG-12.0-Host-Header-Injection.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/86Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541267/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101074Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039500Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1118372Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42895/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/CVE-2017-14087-TRENDMICRO-OFFICESCAN-XG-HOST-HEADER-INJECTION.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/144404/TrendMicro-OfficeScan-11.0-XG-12.0-Host-Header-Injection.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/86Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541267/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101074Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039500Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1118372Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42895/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.