CVE-2022-22229

Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds): Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web administration

Published Oct 18, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 8.4 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability, a stored XSS (or persistent), in the Control Center Controller web pages of Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds) allows a high-privilege attacker with 'WRITE' permissions to store one or more malicious scripts that will infect any other authorized user's account when they accidentally trigger the malicious script(s) while managing the device. Triggering these attacks enables the attacker to execute commands with the permissions up to that of the superuser account. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds) All versions prior to 3.1.1; 3.2 versions prior to 3.2.1.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.3.0, and all subsequent releases. Additionally, if there are malicious templates in the system, once upgraded to a fixed release, these templates can be safely removed from the system.


Vendor Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue. To reduce the risk of exploitation of this issue, use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to only trusted administrative networks, hosts and users.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-27376 An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability, a stored XSS (or persistent), in the Control Center Controller web pages of Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds) allows a high-privilege attacker with 'WRITE' permissions to store one or more malicious scripts that will infect any other authorized user's account when they accidentally trigger the malicious script(s) while managing the device. Triggering these attacks enables the attacker to execute commands with the permissions up to that of the superuser account. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds) All versions prior to 3.1.1; 3.2 versions prior to 3.2.1.
References
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00213}

epss

{'score': 0.00267}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
May 12, 2025, 2:28 PM
Reserved
Dec 21, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 18, 2022, 3:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:28 AM