Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-42332

Low

Published: 27 November 2024

Published
27 November 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0091 76.2th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-42332 is a low-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Zabbix Zabbix. Its CVSS base score is 3.7 (Low).

Operationally, ranked in the top 23.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The researcher is showing that due to the way the SNMP trap log is parsed, an attacker can craft an SNMP trap with additional lines of information and have forged data show in the Zabbix UI. This attack requires SNMP…

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auth to be off and/or the attacker to know the community/auth details. The attack requires an SNMP item to be configured as text on the target host.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zabbix
zabbix
6.0.0 — 6.0.35 · 6.4.0 — 6.4.20 · 7.0.0 — 7.0.3

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-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

References