Cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2022-35229

 

Cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2022-35229

Published: April 25, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU89000
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-2022-35229
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. A remote user can 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.

Note, successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires knowledge of CSRF token.


Affected software

Zabbix
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)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-35229

Install update from vendor's website.

Zabbix - addressed in versions 4.0.43 rc1, 5.0.25 rc1, 6.0.5 rc1, 6.2.0 rc1
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

External References

Related Security Bulletins