CVE-2022-38162
Published: 25 October 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-38162 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Withsecure F-Secure Policy Manager. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-40759
Vulnerability details
Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WithSecure through 2022-08-10) exists within the F-Secure Policy Manager due to an unvalidated parameter in the endpoint, which allows remote attackers to provide a malicious input.
- 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.