CVE-2023-27499
Published: 11 April 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-27499 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Sap Netweaver Application Server Abap. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 35.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-31262
Vulnerability details
SAP GUI for HTML - versions KERNEL 7.22, 7.53, 7.54, 7.77, 7.81, 7.85, 7.89, 7.91, KRNL64UC, 7.22, 7.22EXT, KRNL64UC 7.22, 7.22EXT does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could craft a…
more
malicious URL and lure the victim to click, the script supplied by the attacker will execute in the victim user's browser. The information from the victim's web browser can either be modified or read and sent to the attacker.
- 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.