CVE-2024-50577
Published: 28 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-50577 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jetbrains Youtrack. Its CVSS base score is 4.6 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-50577 is a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability arising from Angular template injection in Hub settings. It affects JetBrains YouTrack installations prior to version 2024.3.47707 and is tracked under CWE-79 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.6.
An attacker with low-privileged authenticated access can supply a malicious Angular template that is stored and later rendered for other users, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality and integrity when the victim interacts with the page.
The vendor advisory at https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/ identifies the issue among resolved JetBrains security problems and indicates that upgrading YouTrack to 2024.3.47707 or later eliminates the flaw. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.1653 with no material increase since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-44958
Vulnerability details
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2024.3.47707 stored XSS was possible via Angular template injection in Hub settings
- 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.