CVE-2021-28247
Published: 26 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-28247 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Ca Ehealth Performance Manager. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 35.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-14936
Vulnerability details
CA eHealth Performance Manager through 6.3.2.12 is affected by Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The impact is: An authenticated remote user is able to inject arbitrary web script or HTML due to incorrect sanitization of user-supplied data and perform a Reflected…
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Cross-Site Scripting attack against the platform users. The affected endpoints are: cgi/nhWeb with the parameter report, aviewbin/filtermibobjects.pl with the parameter namefilter, and aviewbin/query.pl with the parameters System, SystemText, Group, and GroupText. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
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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.