CVE-2024-44080
Published: 29 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-44080 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in 8X8 Jitsi Meet. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Drive-by Compromise (T1189); ranked at the 36.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-40850
Vulnerability details
In Jitsi Meet before 2.0.9779, the functionality to share an image using giphy was implemented in an insecure way, resulting in clients loading GIFs from any arbitrary URL if a message from another participant contains a URL encoded in the…
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expected format.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability enables attackers in a Jitsi Meet session to force other clients to load GIFs from arbitrary attacker-controlled URLs via crafted chat messages, facilitating drive-by compromises (T1189) without further interaction and exploitation of a public-facing web application (T1190).
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.