What is CVE-2017-14615?

CVE-2017-14615 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Watchguard Fireware, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-09-20.

How severe is CVE-2017-14615?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Watchguard Fireware

CVE-2017-14615

An FBX-5313 issue was discovered in WatchGuard Fireware before 12.0. When a failed login attempt is made to the login endpoint of the XML-RPC interface, if JavaScript code, properly encoded to be consumed by XML parsers, is embedded as value of the user element, the code will be rendered in the context of any logged in user in the Web UI visiting "Traffic Monitor" sections "Events" and "All." As a side effect, no further events will be visible in the Traffic Monitor until the device is restarted.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (57.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Watchguard Fireware
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14615?: CVE-2017-14615 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Watchguard Fireware, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-09-20.
How severe is CVE-2017-14615?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.