CVE-2024-4216 (GCVE-0-2024-4216)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-02 17:42 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
XSS vulnerability in /settings/store API response json payload in pgAdmin 4
Summary
pgAdmin <= 8.5 is affected by XSS vulnerability in /settings/store API response json payload. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute malicious script at the client end.
Severity
7.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-06 16:28 UTC
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pgadmin.org | pgAdmin 4 |
Affected:
0 , < 8.6
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| postgresql | pgadmin |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 8.5
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:pgadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2024-03-07 18:30
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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