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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2021-42856 json

Reflected Cross-site Scripting at DsaDataTest

published 2022-03-09 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-29811

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was discovered that the /DsaDataTest endpoint is susceptible to Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. It was noted that the Metric parameter does not have any input checks on the user input that allows an attacker to craft its own malicious payload to trigger a XSS vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • riverbed steelcentral_appinternals_dynamic_sampling_agent 11.8.8, 12.13.0

Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Aternity SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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