Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-40626

Medium

Published: 14 September 2022

Published
14 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0187 83.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-40626 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Zabbix Zabbix. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 16.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An unauthenticated user can create a link with reflected Javascript code inside the backurl parameter and send it to other authenticated users in order to create a fake account with predefined login, password and role in Zabbix Frontend.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zabbix
zabbix
6.2.0 · 6.0.0 — 6.0.6
fedoraproject
fedora
37

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