CVE-2022-42948

criticalpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.027 · 86 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

2.71% (86th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

added 2023-03-30remediate by 2023-04-20

required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Fortra Cobalt Strike User Interface Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Cobalt Strike 4.7.1 fails to properly escape HTML tags when they are displayed on Swing components. By injecting crafted HTML code, it is possible to remotely execute code in the Cobalt Strike UI.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-116USprimary

ATT&CK techniques

ATT&CK techniques this enables or maps to.

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
helpsystems cobalt strike= 4.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:helpsystems:cobalt_strike:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-03-24modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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