Cross-site scripting in the Web Administration interface of Network Optix Nx Witness VMS before version 6.1.3 on Linux, Windows and MacOS allows an adjacent-network attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of an authenticated administrator and steal the administrator's session token, resulting in Administrator Account Takeover
Why It Matters
Analysis dossierWhy It Matters
Cross-site scripting in the Web Administration interface of Network Optix Nx Witness VMS before version 6.1.3 on Linux, Windows and MacOS allows an adjacent-network attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of an authenticated administrator and steal the administrator's session token, resulting in Administrator Account Takeover. An attacker who controls an Nx server on the same network segment can set that server's site name to a script payload, which executes when an administrator opens the "Merge with Another Site" dialog and the site selection list is displayed.Solution: Update to Nx Witness VMS version 6.1.3 or later.
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Risk basis: Microsoft or Microsoft-managed product relevance; HIGH severity; No confirmed exploitation signal in current enrichment
Affected Products & Remediation
0 source-backed productsVendor or catalog guidance (source)
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Known exploitation (source facts)
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- CISA KEV
- Unknown
- Exploited (source statement)
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- Publicly disclosed (source)
- Unknown
Suggested hunting (rule-based inference)
SecOps Signal recommendation (rule-based inference). These steps are hunting hypotheses from the vulnerability class; they do not state or imply that exploitation occurred here or anywhere.
Matched cross-site-scripting (CWE-79)
Exposure
- Identify the affected web component and source-stated version range.Telemetry: Application inventory · The weakness class does not identify local deployment. · Rule cross-site-scripting
Exploitation evidence
- Review suspicious script-bearing requests to the affected endpoint.Telemetry: Application access logs · Requests are leads, not evidence that a user session was compromised. · Rule cross-site-scripting
Response
- Verify the source-stated patch and retest the affected component.Telemetry: Application change records · Remediation requires a local version or configuration check. · Rule cross-site-scripting
CISA KEV Record
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Change History & Source Data
— No recorded material change
- CNA / source
- 96d4e157-0bf0-48b3-8efd-382c68caf4e0
- Record status · verification
- UPDATED · NVD API
- CPE
- Unknown
Evidence & Provenance
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Correlated briefings
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