Security Resilience

CVE-2023-0214

XSS in Trellix Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway 10.0.0 – 10.2.17

Published
18 January 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.019 79th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-0214 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Trellix Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Protocol or Service Impersonation (T1001.003); ranked in the top 21% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway (SWG) due to improper handling of URL paths in internal requests. The affected releases are mainline 11.x versions prior to 11.2.6, 10.x versions prior to 10.2.17, and the controlled 12.x release prior to 12.0.1. The flaw is tracked as CWE-79 and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.1.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can craft SWG-specific requests that reference arbitrary third-party sites. When a victim later accesses the gateway, the attacker-supplied content is reflected into the HTTP response, enabling limited injection of scripts or markup that executes in the context of the SWG origin.

Trellix has published security bulletin SB10393, which directs customers to apply the listed maintenance releases that contain the fix.

The EPSS probability rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.0886 before receding to the current value of 0.0390, indicating a period of elevated exploitation interest after public disclosure.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Skyhigh SWG in main releases 11.x prior to 11.2.6, 10.x prior to 10.2.17, and controlled release 12.x prior to 12.0.1 allows a remote attacker to craft SWG-specific internal requests with URL paths to any third-party…

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website, causing arbitrary content to be injected into the response when accessed through SWG.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001.003 Protocol or Service Impersonation Command And Control
Adversaries may impersonate legitimate protocols or web service traffic to disguise command and control activity and thwart analysis efforts.
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
T1003.005 Cached Domain Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access cached domain credentials used to allow authentication to occur in the event a domain controller is unavailable.
T1007 System Service Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may try to gather information about registered local system services.
T1011 Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium Exfiltration
Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a different network medium than the command and control channel.
T1012 Query Registry Discovery
Adversaries may interact with the Windows Registry to gather information about the system, configuration, and installed software.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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CVE-2023-22468Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-27617Shared CWE-79
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CVE-2023-38192Shared CWE-79

Affected Assets

trellix
skyhigh secure web gateway
12.0.0 · 10.0.0 — 10.2.17 · 11.0.0 — 11.2.6

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.1.2
  • V1.3.2

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.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly target introduction of XSS via coding standards/testing (mostly), yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors unaddressed (partial).

PR.PS-02 partial match
blocks

Patching and EOL replacement can remediate known XSS instances in libraries or frameworks (partial) but do nothing to enforce input neutralization in application code (none).

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

removes
removes
removes
removes
blocks

A.5.6 only promotes membership in groups to improve knowledge, receive alerts, and share information; it performs no action that stops XSS exploitation (or even the underlying neutralization defect) and is a pure dependency for other controls per the owner's labeling rule.

References