CVE-2021-21542
Published: 30 April 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21542 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Dell Idrac9 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8814
Vulnerability details
Dell EMC iDRAC9 versions prior to 4.40.10.00 contain multiple stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. A remote authenticated malicious user with high privileges could potentially exploit these vulnerabilities to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code through multiple affected while generating a certificate.…
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When victim users 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.