Vulnerability · Published Dec 14, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-44042

Critical 9.8

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 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in UiPath Assistant 21.4.4. User-controlled data supplied to the --process-start argument of the URI handler for uipath-assistant:// is not correctly encoded, resulting in attacker-controlled content being injected into the error message displayed (when the injected content does not match an existing process). A determined attacker could leverage this to execute JavaScript in the context of the Electron application.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://docs.uipath.com/robot/docs/uipath-assistant x_refsource_MISC
https://docs.uipath.com/robot/docs/release-notes-2021-10-4 x_refsource_MISC