Medium severity · published Jan 18, 2022
CVE-2021-44217
In Ericsson CodeChecker through 6.18.0, a Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the comments component of the reports viewer allows remote attackers to inject…
6.1
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Ericsson CodeChecker through 6.18.0, a Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the comments component of the reports viewer allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the POST JSON data of the /CodeCheckerService API.
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)1.6% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Codechecker · Ericsson
through 6.18.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44217
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44217
Permissions Required
https://codechecker-demo.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com/
Patch
https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/pull/3549
Release Notes
https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/releases
Exploit
https://github.com/Hyperkopite/CVE-2021-44217/blob/main/README.md
Third Party Advisory
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9525971/142965091-e118b012-a7fc-4c2f-ad0c-80aeed6f7ec9.png
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