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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2024-42346

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, providing training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, accessible via the "/visualizations" endpoint, can be exploited to store HTML tags and trigger JavaScript execution during the edit operation. All supported branches of Galaxy versions prior to 24.1.2 were affected and have been amended with the supplied patches. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published