CVE-2021-4038

NSM vulnerable to XSS

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Dec 9, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Dec 1, 2021

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.8 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Network Security Manager (NSM)McAfee,LLC	before 10.7 M7Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10375

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