Stored cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2022-23133

 

Stored cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2022-23133

Published: February 23, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU60814
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23133
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing host groups. A remote user can permanently inject 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

Zabbix
Fedora
zabbix40
zabbix50
zabbix

How to mitigate CVE-2022-23133

Install updates from vendor's website.

Zabbix - addressed in versions 5.0.19 rc1, 5.4.9 rc1
zabbix40 - update to 4.0.37-1.el7
zabbix50 - update to 5.0.19-1.el7
zabbix - addressed in versions 5.0.19-1.fc34, 5.0.19-1.fc35, 5.0-820220117005358.9edba152

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