cve-2022-39197
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-22 00:43
Modified
2025-01-28 21:48
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
An XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability was found in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike through 4.7 that allowed a remote attacker to execute HTML on the Cobalt Strike teamserver. To exploit the vulnerability, one must first inspect a Cobalt Strike payload, and then modify the username field in the payload (or create a new payload with the extracted information and then modify that username field to be malformed).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
CISA Known exploited vulnerability
Data from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2023-03-30

Due date: 2023-04-20

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39197

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