CVE-2020-29535
Published: 29 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-29535 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Rsa Archer. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-21901
Vulnerability details
Archer before 6.8 P4 (6.8.0.4) contains a stored XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious Archer user could potentially exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When application users access the corrupted…
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data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web 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.