Cross-site scripting in Zabbix - CVE-2024-45699
Published: April 3, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU106940
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45699
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the "backurl" parameter to "/zabbix.php?action=export.valuemaps" endpoint. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Zabbix
Fedora
zabbix6.0
zabbix
zabbix7.0
Fedora
zabbix6.0
zabbix
zabbix7.0
How to mitigate CVE-2024-45699
Install updates from vendor's website.
Zabbix - addressed in versions 6.0.37 rc1, 6.4.21 rc1, 7.0.7 rc1
zabbix6.0 - update to 6.0.39-1.el8
zabbix - addressed in versions 6.0.39-1.el9, 6.0.39-1.fc40, 7.0.11-1.fc41
zabbix7.0 - addressed in versions 7.0.11-1.el8, 7.0.11-1.el9
zabbix6.0 - update to 6.0.39-1.el8
zabbix - addressed in versions 6.0.39-1.el9, 6.0.39-1.fc40, 7.0.11-1.fc41
zabbix7.0 - addressed in versions 7.0.11-1.el8, 7.0.11-1.el9