SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-0499

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().

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.03%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.03%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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().

CVSS 3.0
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.03% probability · 62th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
xapian/xapian-core · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
security@debian.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.