CVE-2024-42346
Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy
- Published
- Sep 20, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 20, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:LLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 53.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, /visualizations endpoint, can be used to store HTML tags and trigger javascript execution upon edit operation. All supported branches of Galaxy (and more back to release_20.05) were amended with the supplied patches. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Sources
1CVE-2024-42346 POC
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