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medium 6.4

CVE-2024-6485 json

XSS in Bootstrap button component

published 2024-07-11 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-vxmc-5x29-h64v , EUVD-2024-2429

cvss
6.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A security vulnerability has been discovered in bootstrap that could enable Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The vulnerability is associated with the data-loading-text attribute within the button plugin. This vulnerability can be exploited by injecting malicious JavaScript code into the attribute, which would then be executed when the button's loading state is triggered.

Patch / fix

  • twitter-bootstrap3 Debian 12 3.4.1+dfsg-3+deb12u1
  • twitter-bootstrap3 Debian 14, Debian 13 3.4.1+dfsg-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6485

  • twitter-bootstrap3 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 3.4.1+dfsg-2+deb11u2build0.22.04.1
  • twitter-bootstrap3 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 3.4.1+dfsg-3+deb12u1build0.24.04.1
  • twitter-bootstrap3 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 3.3.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • twitter-bootstrap3 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.3.7+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-6485

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • reaper CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.1.1-22

azure linux advisories AZL-71317

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-6485 updated cvss 6.4

bootstrap: Cross-Site Scripting via button plugin on bootstrap

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 bootstrap
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, +27 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 ceph, cephadm, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mds, +33 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 redhat-certification Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cockpit-composer, dotnet5.0-build-reference-packages
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 librbd1, librados2, cockpit-composer
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ceph
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 bootstrap Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 bootstrap
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 qpid-dispatch-tools, qpid-dispatch-router
    affected: no fix available
show 3 more
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 bootstrap Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 bootstrap
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Discovery 1 for RHEL 9 discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9 1.12.0-1, discovery/discovery-server-rhel9 1.12.0-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:1249
  • Red Hat Build of Keycloak bootstrap Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 ceph, cephadm, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mib, +16 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 ceph, cephadm, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mib, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 dotnet, cockpit, firefox, dotnet9.0, cockpit-ws, 389-ds-base, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, dotnet9.0, dotnet-host, firefox-x11, thunderbird, dotnet-sdk-9.0, +13 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 bootstrap
    +4 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 bootstrap Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack bootstrap Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8 Red Hat Satellite 6 nodejs-patternfly-react-catalog-view-extension
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
GitHub 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm bootstrap
>=1.4.0, <=3.4.1
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Bootstrap Bootstrap
  • Bootstrap-sass bootstrap-sass
  • getbootstrap bootstrap

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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