Cross-site scripting in Apache Traffic Server - CVE-2022-40743

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Cross-site scripting in Apache Traffic Server - CVE-2022-40743

Published: January 9, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU70791
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2022-40743
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 within the xdebug plugin. 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

Apache Traffic Server
Fedora
openEuler
trafficserver
trafficserver-debugsource
trafficserver-debuginfo
trafficserver-perl
trafficserver-devel

How to mitigate CVE-2022-40743

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Traffic Server - update to 9.1.4
trafficserver - update to 9.1.4-1
trafficserver-debugsource - update to 9.1.4-1
trafficserver-debuginfo - update to 9.1.4-1
trafficserver-perl - update to 9.1.4-1
trafficserver-devel - update to 9.1.4-1
trafficserver - addressed in versions 9.1.4-1.el7, 9.1.4-1.el8, 9.1.4-1.el9, 9.1.4-1.fc36, 9.1.4-1.fc37

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