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CVE-2022-39197

Cross-site Scripting — is CVE-2022-39197real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community ground truth.

Medium · CVSS 6.1EPSS 46.4%CISA KEVCWE-79 · Cross-site Scripting

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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).

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Community real-world severity: High (High 2) — CVSS base score 6.1

Practitioners rate this higher than its CVSS — treat with extra caution.

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    Field note · Tomáš NovákCurated

    Fortra Cobalt Strike Teamserver Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability — Fortra Cobalt Strike contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Teamserver that would allow an attacker to set a malformed username in the Beacon configuration, allowing them to execute code remotely. Listed in the CISA KEV catalog (added 2023-03-30) — confirmed exploited in the wild, not theoretical. FIRST EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at ~46%. Treat it as real and prioritize remediation over triage.

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    Remediation · Lin WeiCurated

    Required action for Fortra Cobalt Strike: Apply updates per vendor instructions. CISA set a federal remediation due date of 2023-04-20. After patching, verify the vulnerable path is no longer reachable before closing the finding.

Same weaknessCWE-79 · Cross-site Scripting.