CVE-2024-42898

Exp

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nagios XI 2024R1.1.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Name parameter in the Account Settings page.

Published: 2025-01-09 Last update: 2025-06-24 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-42898 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.75%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-42898

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-42898

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-31 2.80% 3.75% +0.95%
2 2026-02-18 3.79% 2.80% -0.99%
3 2026-02-17 3.79%

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-42898

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.3 2.7 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-42898

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-42898

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
nagios nagios_xi 2024 cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:2024:r1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-42898

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