CVE-2021-44042
Published: 14 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-44042 is a critical-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Uipath Assistant. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 29.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-30901
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in UiPath Assistant 21.4.4. User-controlled data supplied to the --process-start argument of the URI handler for uipath-assistant:// is not correctly encoded, resulting in attacker-controlled content being injected into the error message displayed (when the injected content…
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does not match an existing process). A determined attacker could leverage this to execute JavaScript in the context of the Electron application.
- 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.