CVE-2024-22876

Medium

Published: 19 January 2024

Published

19 January 2024

Modified

09 June 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0024 47.6th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-22876 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Strangebee Thehive. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 47.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-20404

Vulnerability details

StrangeBee TheHive 5.1.0 to 5.1.9 and 5.2.0 to 5.2.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in the case attachment functionality which enables an attacker to upload a malicious HTML file with Javascript code that will be executed in the…

context of the The Hive application using a specific URL. The vulnerability can be used to coerce a victim account to perform specific actions on the application as helping an analyst becoming administrator.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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T1098 Account Manipulation Persistence

Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain and/or elevate access to victim systems.

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T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection

Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.

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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement

Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.

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Why these techniques?

XSS vulnerability enables uploading malicious HTML/JS attachments that execute in victims' browser sessions within TheHive, facilitating browser session hijacking to coerce actions like privilege escalation via exploitation of the remote web service and account manipulation.