CVE-2024-46240
Published: 22 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-46240 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in O-Dyn Collabtive. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 38.9th 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-2024-41795
Vulnerability details
Collabtive 3.1 is vulnerable to Cross-site scripting (XSS) via the name parameter under action=system and the company/contact parameters under action=addcust within admin.php file.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS vulnerability enables exploitation of a public-facing web application (T1190) to inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript in victims' browsers (T1059.007), facilitating theft of web session cookies (T1539).
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.