CVE-2022-24349
Reflected XSS in action configuration window of Zabbix Frontend
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Zabbix
Description
An authenticated user can create a link with reflected XSS payload for actions’ pages, and send it to other users. Malicious code has access to all the same objects as the rest of the web page and can make arbitrary modifications to the contents of the page being displayed to a victim. This attack can be implemented with the help of social engineering and expiration of a number of factors - an attacker should have authorized access to the Zabbix Frontend and allowed network connection between a malicious server and victim’s computer, understand attacked infrastructure, be recognized by the victim as a trustee and use trusted communication channel.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Zabbix
- 35 days later
· 35 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZabbixCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
What to do
Solution: To remediate this vulnerability, apply the updates
Workaround: The vulnerability can be exploited only by authenticated users. If an immediate update is not possible, review user access rights to your Zabbix Frontend, be attentive to browser warnings and always check any links you can receive via email or other means of communication, which lead to the actionconf.php page of Zabbix Frontend and contain suspicious parameters with special symbols. If you have clicked on the suspicious link, do not fill out the opened form.
References (7)
- https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-20680 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-5fab125c08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-d714c0d39c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-19a9053f17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220412 [SECURITY] [DLA 2980-1] zabbix security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230412 [SECURITY] [DLA 3390-1] zabbix security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00000.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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