CVE-2020-29496
Published: 04 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-29496 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Dell Wyse Management Suite. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 38.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-21864
Vulnerability details
Dell Wyse Management Suite versions prior to 3.1 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user with high privileges could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code while creating the Enduser. When victim users…
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access the submitted data through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable application.
- CWE(s)
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.