CVE-2021-35488
Published: 09 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-35488 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Thruk Thruk. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.8% 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-2021-22130
Vulnerability details
Thruk 2.40-2 allows /thruk/#cgi-bin/status.cgi?style=combined&title={TITLE] Reflected XSS via the host or title parameter. An attacker could inject arbitrary JavaScript into status.cgi. The payload would be triggered every time an authenticated user browses the page containing it.
- 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.