Cross-site scripting in Artica Proxy - CVE-2020-15053
Published: July 23, 2020 / Updated: July 24, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31785
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15053
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via these search fields: real time request, System Events, Proxy Events, Proxy Objects, and Firewall objects. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Artica Proxy
How to mitigate CVE-2020-15053
Install update from vendor's website.
Artica Proxy - update to 4.28.030418