CVE-2024-52943: veritas enterprise_vault Cross-site Scripting

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52943 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in veritas enterprise_vault. EPSS estimates a 1.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 18-11-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 18-03-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas Enterprise Vault before 15.1 UPD882911, ZDI-CAN-24697. 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 an authenticated user without sanitization if executed by that user.

• CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.