CVE-2021-21515
Published: 01 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21515 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Dell Emc Sourceone. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 41.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8787
Vulnerability details
Dell EMC SourceOne, versions 7.2SP10 and prior, contain a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. A remote low privileged attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, to hijack user sessions or to trick a victim application user to unknowingly send arbitrary requests to…
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the server.
- 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.