Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft URL with malicious script in vulnerable parameter
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DeliveryLure authenticated admin to click the link
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ExploitDOM sink executes injected payload client-side
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ExecutionScript runs within admin's authenticated session
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ImpactExfiltrate console data or perform admin actions
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that an authenticated administrator of the Stormshield Network Security web administration panel be socially engineered into visiting an attacker-crafted URL that places a malicious script payload into a specific request parameter processed by a client-side DOM sink; the payload then executes in the admin's browser within their authenticated session. Key limiting factors: the victim must be a currently-authenticated administrator (not an anonymous user), active user interaction is mandatory (UI:R - clicking the crafted link), delivery depends on phishing/link-luring, and access is adjacent (AV:A) rather than fully remote, consistent with management interfaces that are typically restricted to a management network segment. No impact to integrity or availability is claimed in the vector (I:N/A:N), limiting the flaw to confidentiality/session exposure. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.6) DOM-based XSS confined by several real-world limiting factors, and the available signals point to a moderate rather than urgent priority. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N indicates an adjacent-network attack (AV:A), low complexity, and no attacker-side privileges (PR:N) - but it also requires user interaction (UI:R), and the description makes clear that interaction must come from an already-authenticated administrator who is lured into clicking a crafted URL. There is an important nuance to flag explicitly: PR:N reflects that the ATTACKER needs no privileges, yet successful exploitation still depends on an authenticated admin victim, so this is not a fully unauthenticated-to-impact path. No EPSS score, SSVC decision data, KEV listing, or POC indicator was provided in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified - the absence of EPSS/KEV is a data gap, not evidence of safety. Exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' Net assessment: a credible but social-engineering-dependent flaw in a security-management plane; prioritize patching because the target is a firewall admin panel (high-value), but it is not a drive-by mass-exploitation risk. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with adjacent access to the management network crafts a URL embedding a malicious script in a specific vulnerable parameter of the Stormshield web administration panel, then uses phishing or a planted link to lure an authenticated administrator into opening it. When the admin (already logged in) visits the link, the DOM-based sink executes the attacker's script in the context of the admin session, enabling session/config data theft or administrative actions. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 20, 2026
DOM-based cross-site scripting in the Stormshield Network Security web administration panel lets an attacker run arbitrary script inside a logged-in administrator's browser session when the admin follows a crafted link containing a payload in a specific request parameter. Successful exploitation exposes data available to the authenticated session, which the assessed vector rates as high confidentiality impact with no integrity or availability effect (S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N). Rated medium severity at CVSS 6.6, the flaw is constrained by mandatory user interaction, adjacent-network access, and the need to socially engineer a currently authenticated administrator; no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) was identified at time of analysis, so it warrants scheduled rather than emergency patching.
RemediationAI
Obtain the affected and fixed firmware versions from Stormshield advisory 2026-022 (https://advisories.stormshield.eu/2026-022/) and upgrade the management firmware to the first release the vendor lists as corrected; because no exact fix version is present in the available data, do not assume a specific build number and verify against the advisory before scheduling the update. Patch status is therefore unconfirmed from the data at hand rather than known-absent. Until the upgrade is applied, the highest-value compensating control is network scoping: restrict HTTPS access to the administration panel to a dedicated management VLAN or a short allowlist of jump hosts, which directly blunts the AV:A precondition - trade-off is that administrators lose ad-hoc access and must go through bastion hosts. A restrictive Content-Security-Policy on the admin console can block inline/third-party script execution and neutralize DOM XSS payloads, at the risk of breaking console functionality if the policy is not tuned against the shipped UI. Keep admin session lifetimes short and force re-authentication, so any script that reads session-bound data has a narrow window - trade-off is more frequent logins for operators. Note that MFA does not stop this attack, since the script runs after authentication inside the already-authorized session, and that perimeter filtering of malicious strings is unreliable against client-side sinks. Pair these with user awareness for administrators about link-luring, and monitor for unusual admin-console referrer or query-string patterns in web-access logs as a detection signal.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is a client-side (DOM-based) cross-site scripting flaw, CWE-79, in which a parameter in the administrative URL is consumed by a JavaScript DOM sink in the Stormshield Network Security management console rather than being reflected by the server. Because the payload never necessarily reaches the server, server-side input filtering and conventional WAF signatures are unreliable defenses; the script executes in the origin of the administration panel with the administrator's privileges. The CVSS:3.1 vector AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N describes an attacker who needs no credentials (PR:N) and only adjacent network reachability (AV:A) - typical of a management interface confined to a dedicated management VLAN - but who must convince a victim to click a link (UI:R). Scope is Changed (S:C), reflecting that the injected script affects resources beyond the vulnerable component's own security scope, and the impact is limited to confidentiality (C:H) with no integrity or availability effect (I:N/A:N), consistent with script that reads page/session data rather than modifying device configuration. The single affected CPE, cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:stormshield_network_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, is version-wildcarded, so the exact fixed and vulnerable firmware ranges must be taken from Stormshield advisory 2026-022.
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Severity by source
AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Adjacent management-interface access (AV:A) and mandatory admin interaction (UI:R); PR:N as attacker needs no account; scope change (S:C) for XSS in browser; C:H for exposed admin console data, I:L for session-context actions.
Primary rating from Vendor (airbus).
CVSS VectorVendor: airbus
DescriptionCVE.org
It is possible to execute a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting attack against Stormshield’s web administration panel.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to craft a URL containing a malicious script payload within a specific parameter and lure an authenticated administrator into visiting that link.
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Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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