CVE-2023-45992
Published: 19 October 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-45992 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Commscope Ruckus Cloudpath Enrollment System. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 31.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-50254
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability in the web-based interface of the RUCKUS Cloudpath product on version 5.12 build 5538 or before to could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute persistent XSS and CSRF attacks against a user of the admin management interface.…
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A successful attack, combined with a certain admin activity, could allow the attacker to gain full admin privileges on the exploited system.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unauthenticated remote exploitation of public-facing web management interface via persistent XSS and CSRF enables initial access (T1190) and privilege escalation to full administrator privileges (T1068).
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.
Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.
Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.
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.
Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.