CVE-2021-42083 (GCVE-0-2021-42083)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-10 06:29 – Updated: 2025-09-22 06:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Authenticated Stored XSS in OSNEXUS QuantaStor 6.0.0.335
Summary
An authenticated attacker is able to create alerts that trigger a stored XSS attack.
POC
* go to the alert manager
* open the ITSM tab
* add a webhook with the URL/service token value
' -h && id | tee /tmp/ttttttddddssss #' (whitespaces are tab characters)
* click add
* click apply
* create a test alert
* The test alert will run the command
“id | tee /tmp/ttttttddddssss” as root.
* after the test alert inspect
/tmp/ttttttddddssss it'll contain the ids of the root user.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.wbsec.nl/osnexus | third-party-advisorytechnical-descriptionexploit |
| https://csirt.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020/ | third-party-advisory |
| https://www.osnexus.com/products/software-defined… | product |
| https://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2021-42083 | third-party-advisoryexploittechnical-description |
| https://www.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020 | third-party-advisoryx_transferred |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSNEXUS | QuantaStor |
Affected:
0 , < 6.0.0.355
(semver)
|
guessed |
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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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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