CVE-2024-5532
Published: 28 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-5532 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Microfocus Operations Agent. Its CVSS base score is 1.8 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 47.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-46735
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in OpenText™ Operations Agent. The XSS vulnerability could allow an attacker with local admin permissions to manipulate the content of the internal status page of the Agent…
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on the local system. This issue affects Operations Agent: 12.20, 12.21, 12.22, 12.23, 12.24, 12.25, 12.26.
- 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.