CVE-2021-38997
Published: 12 December 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-38997 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax (CWE-644) vulnerability in Ibm Api Connect. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-25434
Vulnerability details
IBM API Connect V10.0.0.0 through V10.0.5.0, V10.0.1.0 through V10.0.1.7, and V2018.4.1.0 through 2018.4.1.19 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: 213212.
- 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.
Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.