CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-0499
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
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().
Affected configurations
• xapian xapian-core (< 1.4.6)
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3709-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3709-1/ Third Party Advisory