CVE-2018-0499

Severity Score

6.1

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().

Una vulnerabilidad de Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) en queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc en Xapian xapian-core en versiones anteriores a la 1.4.6 existe debido al escapado incompleto de HTML por Xapian::MSet::snippet().

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-11-27 CVE Reserved
2018-07-02 CVE Published
2023-07-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02	2018-08-28

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html	2018-08-28
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3709-1	2018-08-28

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Xapian Search vendor "Xapian"		Xapian-core Search vendor "Xapian" for product "Xapian-core"				< 1.4.6 Search vendor "Xapian" for product "Xapian-core" and version " < 1.4.6"		-		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				17.10 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "17.10"		-		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				18.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "18.04"		lts		Affected