CVE-2021-4038 - OpenCVE

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in McAfee Network Security Manager (NSM) prior to 10.1 Minor 7 allows a remote authenticated administrator to embed a XSS in the administrator interface via specially crafted custom rules containing HTML. NSM did not correctly sanitize custom rule content in all scenarios.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vendors & Products
CPE Configurations

Vendors	Products
Mcafee	Network Security Manager

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:network_security_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References

Link	Resource
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10375	Broken Link

History

No history.

MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2021-12-09T15:55:17

Updated: 2021-12-09T15:55:17

Reserved: 2021-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-4038

JSON object: View

NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-12-09T16:15:08.610

Modified: 2023-11-16T03:06:23.680

Link: CVE-2021-4038

JSON object: View

Redhat Information

No data.

CWE

CWE-79

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