CVE-2017-20153
Published: 30 December 2022
Summary
CVE-2017-20153 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Imageserve Project Imageserve. Its CVSS base score is 2.6 (Low).
Operationally, ranked in the top 42.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2017-11158
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been found in aerouk imageserve and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument REQUEST_URI leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of…
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an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 2ac3cd4f90b4df66874fab171376ca26868604c4. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-217057 was assigned to this vulnerability.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.