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CVE-2022-40044

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40044 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Centreon v20.10.18. Attackers can exploit this flaw by injecting crafted payloads into the "esc_name" parameter within the Configuration/Notifications/Escalations section, leading to the execution of arbitrary web scripts or HTML. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in low impact to confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
20.10.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:centreon:centreon:20.10.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: centreon/centreonFixed in: 21.04.16
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: centreon/centreonFixed in: 21.10.8
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: centreon/centreonFixed in: 22.04.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-rv5q-72p2-2q24medium

Centreon contains cross-site scripting vulnerability via esc_name parameter

Sep 27, 2022

References

github.com / centreon/centreon/releases
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
hakaioffensivesecurity.com / centreon-sqli-and-xss-vulnerability
ExploitThird Party Advisory