CVE-2021-23889 McAfee ePO Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

What is CVE-2021-23889?

CVE-2021-23889 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator, published on 26 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-23889?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator.

How do I fix CVE-2021-23889?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-23889 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-2021-23889 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-23889 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator

• CVE-2016-8027 SQL injection in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.2 and earlier and 5.1.3 and earlier Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-5156 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0690 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-1498 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2015-8765 Deserialization in n/a High 8.3

All Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2v7g-2cpw-m7rv.