Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-48708

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 22 October 2024

Published
22 October 2024
Modified
25 October 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-48708 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in O-Dyn Collabtive. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 44.7th 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

Vulnerability details

Collabtive 3.1 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the name parameter in (a) file tasklist.php under action = add/edit and in (b) file admin.php under action = adduser/edituser.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

The stored XSS vulnerability allows injection of malicious scripts via name parameters in tasklist.php and admin.php, enabling exploitation of the public-facing web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victims' browsers (T1059.007).

Affected Assets

o-dyn
collabtive
3.1

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-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References