CVE-2022-3193
Published: 28 September 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-3193 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Ovirt Ovirt-Engine. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 46.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-42610
Vulnerability details
An HTML injection/reflected Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in the ovirt-engine. A parameter "error_description" fails to sanitize the entry, allowing the vulnerability to trigger on the Windows Service Accounts home pages.
- 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.