CVE-2021-38183
Published: 12 October 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-38183 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Sap Netweaver. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 34.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-24653
Vulnerability details
SAP NetWeaver - versions 700, 701, 702, 730, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, allowing an attacker to cause a potential victim to supply a malicious content to a vulnerable web application, which is then reflected to the victim and…
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executed by the web browser, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting 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.