CVE-2021-44478
Published: 08 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-44478 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Siemens Polarion Alm. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 34.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-31311
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been identified in Polarion ALM (All versions < V21 R2 P2), Polarion WebClient for SVN (All versions). A cross-site scripting is present due to improper neutralization of data sent to the web page through the SVN WebClient…
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in the affected product. An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code and extract sensitive information by sending a specially crafted link to users with administrator privileges.
- 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.