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xapian-core Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 6, 2023

Package

bundler xapian-core (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 1.4.6

Patched versions

1.4.6

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().

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 2, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jan 27, 2023
Last updated Mar 6, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-0499

GHSA ID

GHSA-7qw4-w7hf-22q3

Source code

No known source code
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