VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2022-39197
CVSS score6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS probability44.15%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2022-09-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Known Exploited Vulnerability
Fortra Cobalt Strike Teamserver Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
Vendor / product: Fortra / Cobalt Strike
Description
An XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability was found in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike through 4.7 that allowed a remote attacker to execute HTML on the Cobalt Strike teamserver. To exploit the vulnerability, one must first inspect a Cobalt Strike payload, and then modify the username field in the payload (or create a new payload with the extracted information and then modify that username field to be malformed).
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-79
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 — US Government Resource