CVE-2021-35208
Published: 02 July 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-35208 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 26.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-21852
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in ZmMailMsgView.js in the Calendar Invite component in Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.8.x before 8.8.15 Patch 23. An attacker could place HTML containing executable JavaScript inside element attributes. This markup becomes unescaped, causing arbitrary markup to be…
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injected into the document.
- 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.