CVE-2021-23889 (GCVE-0-2021-23889)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-26 09:30 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:14
VLAI
Title
McAfee ePO Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Summary
Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) prior to 5.10 Update 10 allows ePO administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via multiple parameters where the administrator's entries were not correctly sanitized.
Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE 79: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
trellix CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard – unranked: 6 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
McAfee,LLC McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) Affected: unspecified , < 5.10 CU 10 (custom)
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