CVE-2022-22229
Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds): Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web administration
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- juniper
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.83% · top 42% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.4.
Weakness
Affected products
Juniper Networks · Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds)
- affected unspecified – < 3.1.1
- affected 3.2 – < 3.2.1
What to do
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.
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.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References (1)
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA69883 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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