🛡️ CVE-2024-42346 — galaxy

🟠 CVSS 7.6 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
7.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-42346 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-42346 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • galaxy (fixed in 24.1.1)
  • galaxy-auth (fixed in 24.1.1)
  • galaxy-data (fixed in 24.1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 September 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-20
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
galaxy — 24.1.1
galaxy-auth — 24.1.1
galaxy-data — 24.1.1

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