CVE-2024-40875
Published: 20 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-40875 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 27.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-38821
Vulnerability details
There is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.52. Attackers with system administrator permissions can interfere with another system administrator’s use of the management console when the second administrator logs in.…
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Attack complexity is high, attack requirements are present, privileges required are high, user interaction required is none. The impact to confidentiality is none, the impact to availability is low, and the impact to system integrity is high.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.