CVE-2022-39197: Fortra Cobalt Strike Teamserver Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: Fortra Cobalt Strike Teamserver Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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).
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Fortra: Cobalt Strike
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/ (opens in new tab)
- www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/ (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)