Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-35978

Medium

Published: 05 July 2023

Published
05 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0017 38.4th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-35978 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in ArubaOS could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in a…

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victim's browser in the context of the affected interface.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

arubanetworks
arubaos
6.5.4.0 — 8.6.0.21 · 8.7.0.0 — 8.10.0.7 · 8.11.0.0 — 8.11.1.1

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.

References