CVE-2021-40337
Published: 25 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-40337 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Hitachi Linkone. Its CVSS base score is 4.2 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-27516
Vulnerability details
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Hitachi Energy LinkOne allows an attacker that manages to exploit the vulnerability can take advantage to exploit multiple web attacks and stole sensitive information. This issue affects: Hitachi Energy LinkOne 3.20; 3.22; 3.23; 3.24; 3.25;…
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- 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.