CVE-2022-39050
Published: 05 September 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-39050 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Otrs Otrs. Its CVSS base score is 4.6 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 30.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-41596
Vulnerability details
An attacker who is logged into OTRS as an admin user may manipulate customer URL field to store JavaScript code to be run later by any other agent when clicking the customer URL link. Then the stored JavaScript is executed…
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in the context of OTRS. The same issue applies for the usage of external data sources e.g. database or ldap
- 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.