CVE-2018-0499

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Published 2022-05-14 · Modified 2024-02-20

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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().

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.4.6-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.4.6-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.4.6-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.4.6-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.4.6-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
RubyGems	xapian-core	`<>= 1.4.6`	`>= 1.4.6`
RubyGems	xapian-core	`<1.4.6`	`1.4.6`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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