Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-31928

Medium

Published: 02 August 2023

Published
02 August 2023
Modified
13 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0017 38.0th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-31928 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Broadcom Brocade Fabric Operating System. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Brocade Webtools PortSetting.html of Brocade Fabric OS version before Brocade Fabric OS v9.2.0 that could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a target user’s session with the…

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Brocade Webtools application.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

broadcom
brocade fabric operating system
≤ 9.2.0

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.

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