Vulnerability · Published Dec 9, 2021 · Assigned by trellix

CVE-2021-4038NSM vulnerable to XSS

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in McAfee Network Security Manager (NSM) from McAfee,LLC. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in McAfee Network Security Manager (NSM) prior to 10.1 Minor 7 allows a remote authenticated administrator to embed a XSS in the administrator interface via specially crafted custom rules containing HTML. NSM did not correctly sanitize custom rule content in all scenarios.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
McAfee,LLC McAfee Network Security Manager (NSM) unspecified – before 10.7 M7

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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