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).
References
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-39197
CVSS impact metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 · Medium
Information
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Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Published
2022-09-21T23:15:11.963Z
3 years agoLast modified
2025-11-03T17:13:55.513Z
2 months ago