Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-23272

Medium

Published: 26 January 2021

Published
26 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.9th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-23272 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Tibco Bpm Enterprise. Its CVSS base score is 4.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Application Development Clients component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO BPM Enterprise and TIBCO BPM Enterprise Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric contains a vulnerability that theoretically allows a low privileged attacker with network access to execute a Cross Site Scripting…

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(XSS) attack on the affected system. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO BPM Enterprise: versions 4.3.0 and below and TIBCO BPM Enterprise Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric: versions 4.3.0 and below.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

tibco
bpm enterprise
≤ 4.3.0
tibco
bpm enterprise distribution for silver fabric
≤ 4.3.0

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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