GE Multilink Cross-site Scripting

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• ge multilink ml1200 firmware4.2.1
• ge multilink ml1600 firmware4.2.1
• ge multilink ml2400 firmware4.2.1
• ge multilink ml3000 firmwareup to 5.2.0 inclusive
• ge multilink ml3100 firmwareup to 5.2.0 inclusive
• ge multilink ml800 firmware4.2.1
• ge multilink ml810 firmware5.2.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (icscert). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• GE ML810/3000/3100 series switch

  • up to and including 5.2.0affected

• GE Multilink ML800/1200/1600/2400

  • up to and including 4.2.1affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2014-5418GE Multilink Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  32Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.