CVE-2023-33991
Published: 13 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-33991 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Sap Ui. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 49.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-38115
Vulnerability details
SAP UI5 Variant Management - versions SAP_UI 750, SAP_UI 754, SAP_UI 755, SAP_UI 756, SAP_UI 757, UI_700 200, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs on reading data from the server, resulting in Stored Cross-Site Scripting (Stored XSS) vulnerability. After successful…
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exploitation, an attacker with user level access can cause high impact on confidentiality, modify some information and can cause unavailability of the application at user level.
- 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.