Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-50983

Medium

Published: 15 November 2024

Published
15 November 2024
Modified
07 July 2025
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 0.0018 39.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-50983 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Getflightpath Flightpath. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 39.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

FlightPath 7.5 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which allows authenticated remote attackers with administrative rights to inject arbitrary JavaScript in the web browser of a user by including a malicious payload into the Last Name section in the…

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Create/Edit Faculty/Staff User or Create/Edit Student User sections.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
Why these techniques?

Stored XSS allows authenticated admins to inject arbitrary JavaScript into user profiles, executing JS in victims' browsers (T1059.007) to enable browser session hijacking (T1185) and web session cookie theft (T1539).

Affected Assets

getflightpath
flightpath
7.5

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