Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-31488

Medium

Published: 14 May 2024

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
21 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0046 64.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-31488 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortinac. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 35.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An improper neutralization of inputs during web page generation vulnerability [CWE-79] in FortiNAC version 9.4.0 through 9.4.4, 9.2.0 through 9.2.8, 9.1.0 through 9.1.10, 8.8.0 through 8.8.11, 8.7.0 through 8.7.6, 7.2.0 through 7.2.3 may allow a remote authenticated attacker to perform…

more

stored and reflected cross site scripting (XSS) attack via crafted HTTP requests.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortinac
7.2.0 — 7.2.4 · 8.7.0 — 9.4.5

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-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.

References