# CVE-2022-39197

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).

- Page: https://www.vulneraibility.com/cve/CVE-2022-39197
- CVSS: 6.1
- Known exploited: yes, in CISA KEV since 2023-03-30; CISA due date 2023-04-20
- EPSS: 44.15% (percentile 98.8)
- Unvetted proof-of-concept code on GitHub: 15 GitHub proofs of concept (first 2022-09-21)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact partial (assessed 2025-01-28)
- Weakness: CWE-79
- Published: 2022-09-22

## Affected

- helpsystems:cobalt_strike

## References

- [other] https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/tag/release/
- [other] https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/out-of-band-update-cobalt-strike-4-7-1/
- [other] https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-39197

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