Medium severity · published Jun 25, 2020
CVE-2020-7355
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the 'notes' field of a discovered scan asset in Rapid7 Metasploit Pro allows an attacker with a specially-crafted network service of a…
6.1
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the 'notes' field of a discovered scan asset in Rapid7 Metasploit Pro allows an attacker with a specially-crafted network service of a scan target store an XSS sequence in the Metasploit Pro console, which will trigger when the operator views the record of that scanned host in the Metasploit Pro interface. This issue affects Rapid7 Metasploit Pro version 4.17.1-20200427 and prior versions, and is fixed in Metasploit Pro version 4.17.1-20200514. See also CVE-2020-7354, which describes a similar issue, but involving the generated 'host' field of a discovered scan asset.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ME
Metasploit · Rapid7
before 4.17.1; 4.17.1; 4.17.1; 4.17.1; 4.17.1; 4.17.1; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7355
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7355
Exploit
https://avalz.it/research/metasploit-pro-xss-to-rce/
Release Notes
https://help.rapid7.com/metasploit/release-notes/archive/2020/05/#20200514
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