CVE-2022-39197

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).

Severity scores

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• 6.1CVSS 3.1, Mediumfrom CISA (ADP container)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What to do

• Apply updates per vendor instructions.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

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Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

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Affected products

Timeline

1. 22 Sep 2022 Published
2. 30 Mar 2023 CVE-2022-39197 added to CISA KEV
3. 30 Mar 2023 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

• CWE-79

References

• www.cobaltstrike.comx_refsource_MISC
• www.cobaltstrike.comx_refsource_MISC