CVE-2018-0499
xapian-core Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
6.1
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.37%
Description
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().
How to fix CVE-2018-0499
To remediate CVE-2018-0499, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/xapian-core—upgrade to 1.4.6-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.4.6-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.4.6 or later
Is CVE-2018-0499 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.4.6-r0
- from 0, < 1.4.6-1
- from 0, < 1.4.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |