CVE-2024-52942
Published: 18 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-52942 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Veritas Enterprise Vault. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 46.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-45976
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in Veritas Enterprise Vault before 15.1 UPD882911, ZDI-CAN-24696. It allows an authenticated remote attacker to inject a parameter into an HTTP request, allowing for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) while viewing archived content. This could reflect back to…
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an authenticated user without sanitization if executed by that user.
- 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.