CVE-2018-12104
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Airbnb Knowledge Repo 0.7.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML via the post comments functionality, as demonstrated by the post/posts/new_report.kp URI.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | knowledge-repo | <0.9.0 | 0.9.0 |
| PyPI | knowledge-repo | <0.7.5 | 0.7.5 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12104
- https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/issues/254
- https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/issues/431
- https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/pull/558
- https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/commit/f026ad2afea14e0ffc91f1aa0eaedcdc72c63167
- https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/knowledge-repo/PYSEC-2018-116.yaml
- https://pypi.org/project/knowledge-repo
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227121013/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104487
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104487
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.