CVE-2023-44301
Published: 04 December 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-44301 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Dell Powerprotect Data Manager Dm5500 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 37.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-48657
Vulnerability details
Dell DM5500 5.14.0.0 and prior contain a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. A network attacker with low privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a victim user's web browser in the…
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context of the vulnerable web application. Exploitation may lead to information disclosure, session theft, or client-side request forgery.
- 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.