Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-22277

Medium

Published: 04 July 2024

Published
04 July 2024
Modified
13 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0015 34.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-22277 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Director. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 34.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware Cloud Director Availability contains an HTML injection vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to VMware Cloud Director Availability can craft malicious HTML tags to execute within replication tasks.

CWE(s)
CWE-79CWE-80

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

vmware
cloud director
4.0.0 — 4.7.2

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

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

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

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

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

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

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