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Fortra Cobalt Strike Teamserver Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2023-03-30
Remediation due
2023-04-20

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39197

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).

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA6.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableno
Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
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n/a

References

2 Links

Record Details

Published
2022-09-22
Last updated
2025-10-21
Assigner (CNA)
mitre
Credited to
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