CVE-2021-43574
Published: 15 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-43574 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Atmail Atmail. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 3.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-30492
Vulnerability details
WebAdmin Control Panel in Atmail 6.5.0 (a version released in 2012) allows XSS via the format parameter to the default URI. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
- 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.