CVE-2021-34617
Published: 19 July 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-34617 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Aruba Aruba Instant. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-21267
Vulnerability details
A remote cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in some Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP) products in version(s): Aruba Instant 6.4.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.13 and below; Aruba Instant 6.5.x: 6.5.4.13 and below; Aruba Instant 8.3.x: 8.3.0.7 and below; Aruba Instant 8.4.x: 8.4.0.5…
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and below; Aruba Instant 8.5.x: 8.5.0.0 and below. Aruba has released patches for Aruba Instant that address this security vulnerability.
- 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.