CVE-2022-2514
Published: 25 July 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-2514 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Fava Project Fava. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 44.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-0100
Vulnerability details
The time and filter parameters in Fava prior to v1.22 are vulnerable to reflected XSS due to the lack of escaping of error messages which contained the parameters in verbatim.
- 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.