CVE-2021-38944
Published: 18 May 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-38944 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Ibm Datapower Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 36.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-25381
Vulnerability details
IBM DataPower Gateway 10.0.2.0 through 1.0.3.0, 10.0.1.0 through 10.0.1.5, and 2018.4.1.0 through 2018.4.1.18 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the…
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vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 211236.
- 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.