{"id":"CVE-2018-9090","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-9090","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:19:14.978Z","title":"An attacker can insert an XSS payload into the dashboards.","description":"CoreOS Tectonic 1.7.x and 1.8.x before 1.8.7-tectonic.2 deploys the Grafana web application using default credentials (admin/admin) for the administrator account located at grafana-credentials secret. This occurs because CoreOS does not randomize the administrative password to later be configured by Tectonic administrators. An attacker can insert an XSS payload into the dashboards.","published":"2019-09-24T14:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:06:04.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["redhat/tectonic"],"epss":{"score":0.00793,"percentile":0.56167,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.79%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://coreos.com/tectonic/releases/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://coreos.com/tectonic/releases/#1.8.7-tectonic.2","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://coreos.com/tectonic/releases/","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://coreos.com/tectonic/releases/#1.8.7-tectonic.2","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9090","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}