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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-25016

Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) before 7.0.3 and Greenbone OS (GOS) before 5.0.0 allow Host Header Injection.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.28%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) before 7.0.3 and Greenbone OS (GOS) before 5.0.0 allow Host Header Injection.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.28% probability · 70th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-74
Affected
greenbone/greenbone security assistant · greenbone/greenbone os
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 1.28%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 1.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.