Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-34362

Medium

Published: 08 February 2023

Published
08 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0038 59.7th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-34362 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Ibm Sterling Secure Proxy. Its CVSS base score is 4.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.0.3 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or…

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session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 230523.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
sterling secure proxy
6.0.3

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References