CVE-2022-39197 (GCVE-0-2022-39197)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-22 00:43
Modified
2025-10-21 23:15
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
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Summary
An XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability was found in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike through 4.7 that allowed a remote attacker to execute HTML on the Cobalt Strike teamserver. To exploit the vulnerability, one must first inspect a Cobalt Strike payload, and then modify the username field in the payload (or create a new payload with the extracted information and then modify that username field to be malformed).
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
Date added: 2023-03-30
Due date: 2023-04-20
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Used in ransomware: Unknown
Notes: https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39197
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