CVE-2021-31835 (GCVE-0-2021-31835)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-22 11:05 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
McAfee ePO Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
Summary
Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) prior to 5.10 Update 11 allows ePO administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a specific parameter where the administrator's entries were not correctly sanitized.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
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| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McAfee,LLC | McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) |
Affected:
unspecified , < 5.10 CU 11
(custom)
|
guessed |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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