CVE-2022-23133 in Zabbix and Fedora Project Products
Published on January 13, 2022

Stored XSS in host groups configuration window in Zabbix Frontend

An authenticated user can create a hosts group from the configuration with XSS payload, which will be available for other users. When XSS is stored by an authenticated malicious actor and other users try to search for groups during new host creation, the XSS payload will fire and the actor can steal session cookies and perform session hijacking to impersonate users or take over their accounts.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2022-23133 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be low. considered to have a small impact on confidentiality and integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:

NETWORK

Attack Complexity:

LOW

Privileges Required:

LOW

User Interaction:

NONE

Scope:

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact:

LOW

Integrity Impact:

LOW

Availability Impact:

LOW

Weakness Type

What is a XSS Vulnerability?

The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

CVE-2022-23133 has been classified to as a XSS vulnerability or weakness.

Products Associated with CVE-2022-23133

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Zabbix

Fedora Project Fedora

Zabbix Frontend

Affected Versions

Zabbix Frontend:

Version 5.0.0 – 5.0.18 is affected.
Version 5.4.0 – 5.4.8 is affected.
Version 5.0.19 and below 5.0.19* is unaffected.
Version 5.4.9 and below 5.4.9* is unaffected.

Exploit Probability

EPSS

0.96%

Percentile

76.34%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.