Cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2022-35230

 

Cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2022-35230

Published: September 6, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67030
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-35230
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the graphs page. 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

Zabbix
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu
zabbix-agent (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-frontend-php (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-java-gateway (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-proxy-mysql (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-proxy-pgsql (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-proxy-sqlite3 (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-server-mysql (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-server-pgsql (Ubuntu package)
zabbix-agent
zabbix-agent-debuginfo
zabbix-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2022-35230

Install update from vendor's website.

Zabbix - addressed in versions 4.0.43, 5.0.25, 6.0.5, 6.2.0
zabbix-agent (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-frontend-php (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-java-gateway (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-proxy-mysql (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-proxy-pgsql (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-proxy-sqlite3 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-server-mysql (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-server-pgsql (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
zabbix-agent - update to 4.0.12-4.18.1
zabbix-agent-debuginfo - update to 4.0.12-4.18.1
zabbix-debugsource - update to 4.0.12-4.18.1

External References

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