CVE-2024-54958
Published: 20 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-54958 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Nagios Nagios Xi. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked in the top 33.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4458
Vulnerability details
Nagios XI 2024R1.2.2 is susceptible to a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Tools page. This flaw allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the Tools interface, which are then stored and executed in the context of other…
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users accessing the page.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS allows arbitrary JavaScript injection and execution in victims' browser sessions on the Tools page (T1059.007), enabling theft of web session cookies (T1539) and abuse of valid accounts (T1078).
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.