Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-26574
Critical 9.6
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.1% (higher than 82% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Leostream Connection Broker 8.2.x is affected by stored XSS. An unauthenticated attacker can inject arbitrary JavaScript code via the webquery.pl User-Agent HTTP header. It is rendered by the admins the next time they log in. The JavaScript injected can be used to force the admin to upload a malicious Perl script that will be executed as root via libMisc::browser_client. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://adepts.of0x.cc/leostream-xss-to-rce/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.leostream.com/resources/product-lifecycle/ x_refsource_MISC