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CVE-2022-39197

CVE-2022-39197MEDIUM

n/a n/a — Fortra Cobalt Strike

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   R  C  L  L  N    6.1   .4645   98.8   YES

AFFECTED
  Product  Versions  Fixed
  n/a      n/a –     —

TIMELINE
  Sep 2   Reserved by mitre
  Sep 22  Published (CNA: mitre)
  Mar 30  Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2023-04-20

CWE-79 · CNA: mitre · CVSS v3.1 · 3 references · KEV due April 20, 2023

Description

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).

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
September 2, 2022	Reserved	Reserved by mitre
September 22, 2022	Published	Published (CNA: mitre)
March 30, 2023	KEV ADDED	Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2023-04-20

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
n/a	n/a	—	n/a	—

Weaknesses

CWE-79

References (3)

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-39197 [government-resource]
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/ [x_refsource_MISC]
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/ [x_refsource_MISC]

Authoritative record: CVE-2022-39197 at cve.org

Weaknesses: CWE-79

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