CVE-2020-5317 Cross-site scripting in Elastic Cloud Storage
Remote authenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts into Dell EMC ECS, leading to code execution in victim browsers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-5317?
CVE-2020-5317 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, published on 6 Feb 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5317?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Dell Emc Elastic Cloud Storage.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5317?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5317 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2020-5317 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5317 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j43r-pqf8-cg43.