CVE-2024-21648

Q: How do I fix CVE-2024-21648?

Upgrade xwiki to 15.8 or later.

Q: Is CVE-2024-21648 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2024-21648 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.51% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 41% of all scored CVEs.

Q: How severe is CVE-2024-21648?

CVE-2024-21648 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.0, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

Q: What does CVE-2024-21648 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for xwiki (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

HIGH

8.0

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The rollback action is missing a right protection, a user can rollback to a previous version of the page to gain rights they don't have anymore. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10.17, 15.5.3 and 15.8-rc-1 by ensuring that the rights are checked before performing the rollback.

CWE-274

How to fix

Remediation Available

xwikiNVD

Affected:>= 15.6, < 15.8Fixed in:15.8CVE-2024-21648derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.51%probability of exploitation in 30 days

41stpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 41% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch2

Vendor Advisory1

jira.xwiki.org

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CVE-2021-35534	High	7.2	1.7%	-	-
CVE-2025-20156	Critical	9.9	1.2%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-35928	High	8.4	1.0%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-45101	High	7.3	0.8%	-	Fix
CVE-2021-32006	Medium	5.0	0.6%	-	-
CVE-2022-0668	Medium	5.3	0.6%	-	Fix

Common questions

How do I fix CVE-2024-21648?

Upgrade xwiki to 15.8 or later.

Is CVE-2024-21648 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2024-21648 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.51% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 41% of all scored CVEs.

How severe is CVE-2024-21648?

CVE-2024-21648 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.0, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

What does CVE-2024-21648 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for xwiki (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.