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 val…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (58.2th 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.