CVE-2024-36599
Published: 14 June 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-36599 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Aegon Life Insurance Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 37.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-36169
Vulnerability details
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Aegon Life v1.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the name parameter at insertClient.php.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The XSS vulnerability in the web application (insertClient.php) enables exploitation of a public-facing application to inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of victims' browsers.
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.