CVE-2023-1860
Published: 05 April 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-1860 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Keysight Hawkeye. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-24062
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in Keysight IXIA Hawkeye 3.3.16.28. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /licenses. The manipulation of the argument view with the input teste"><script>alert(%27c4ng4c3ir0%27)</script> leads to cross site scripting. The…
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attack can be initiated remotely. VDB-224998 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: Vendor did not respond if and how they may handle this issue.
- 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.