CVE-2022-39197

medium

Description

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).

References

https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/

https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-39197

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-09-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.46446