VulnerabilityPublished 4 Oct 2024Updated 17 Oct 2025

CVE-2024-47854: Veritas Data Insight · Cross-site Scripting

Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.1 Medium · fixed in 7.1 : update Veritas Data Insight when convenient.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.1Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 54% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Affects: Veritas Data Insight before 7.1
Patch: Available – fixed in 7.1

CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:R

Attack Complexity: Low
Attack Vector: Network
Availability: None
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Privileges Required: None
Scope: Changed
User Interaction: Required

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.
Confidentiality: Low: There is some loss of confidentiality. Access to some restricted information is obtained, but the attacker does not have control over what information is obtained, or the amount or kind of loss is limited. The information disclosure does not cause a direct, serious loss to the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Oct 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

AI-suggested

European organizations should implement the following specific mitigations: 1) Monitor Veritas communications for official patches or updates addressing this vulnerability and prioritize timely deployment once available. 2) Until patches are released, apply Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block suspicious input patterns indicative of XSS attacks targeting Veritas Data Insight. 3) Educate users about the risks of clicking unsolicited links and implement email filtering to reduce phishing attempts that could deliver malicious URLs exploiting this vulnerability. 4) Enforce strict Content Security Policies (CSP) on the application to restrict execution of unauthorized scripts. 5) Conduct regular security assessments and penetration testing focused on web application input validation and output encoding to identify and remediate similar issues proactively. 6) Review and harden authentication and session management controls to limit the impact of any session hijacking attempts. 7) Implement network segmentation and least privilege access controls around Veritas Data Insight deployments to reduce exposure. These targeted actions go beyond generic advice and address the specific attack vectors and environment of this vulnerability.

Description

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in Veritas Data Insight before 7.1. It allows a remote attacker to inject an arbitrary web script into an HTTP request that could reflect back to an authenticated user without sanitization if executed by that user.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of CVE-2024-47854 can be substantial, particularly for enterprises relying on Veritas Data Insight for data governance, compliance, and security analytics. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to hijack user sessions, steal sensitive data, or perform unauthorized actions within the application, potentially leading to data breaches or compliance violations under regulations such as GDPR. The reflected XSS nature means phishing or social engineering campaigns could be used to trick users into executing malicious scripts, increasing the risk of targeted attacks. Given that Veritas Data Insight is often deployed in environments handling critical enterprise data, the confidentiality and integrity of data could be compromised. Although availability impact is low, the reputational damage and regulatory penalties resulting from data exposure or misuse could be significant. The medium severity rating suggests that while the vulnerability is not trivially exploitable without user interaction, the potential consequences warrant prompt mitigation, especially in sectors with high compliance requirements such as finance, healthcare, and government within Europe.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
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.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 17 Oct 2025, 15:31 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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