Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-21838

Medium

Published: 05 March 2024

Published
05 March 2024
Modified
10 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.5th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-21838 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Gallagher Command Centre. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper neutralization of special elements in output (CWE-74) used by the email generation feature of the Command Centre Server could lead to HTML code injection in emails generated by Command Centre. This issue affects: Gallagher Command Centre 9.00 prior to…

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vEL9.00.1774 (MR2), 8.90 prior to vEL8.90.1751 (MR3), 8.80 prior to vEL8.80.1526 (MR4), 8.70 prior to vEL8.70.2526 (MR6), all version of 8.60 and prior.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gallagher
command centre
≤ 8.60 · 8.70 — 8.70.2526 · 8.80 — 8.80.1526

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-74

Developer assessments and testing (including injection-focused techniques) identify improper neutralization of special elements, and the verifiable flaw remediation corrects them pre-deployment.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

addresses: CWE-74

Identifies indicators of injection attacks (command, SQL, LDAP, etc.) via anomaly and attack monitoring.

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