CVE-2022-24709
Published: 24 February 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-24709 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Amazon Awsui\/Components-React. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-1099
Vulnerability details
@awsui/components-react is the main AWS UI package which contains React components, with TypeScript definitions designed for user interface development. Multiple components in versions before 3.0.367 have been found to not properly neutralize user input and may allow for javascript injection.…
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Users are advised to upgrade to version 3.0.367 or later. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.