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Remote Code Execution in esigate-core

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 21, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

maven org.esigate:esigate-core (Maven)

Affected versions

< 5.3

Patched versions

5.3

Description

esigate.org esigate version 5.2 and earlier contains a CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') vulnerability in ESI directive with user specified XSLT that can result in Remote Code Execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Use of another weakness in backend application to reflect ESI directives. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.3.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 21, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1000854

GHSA ID

GHSA-hjm9-576q-399p

Source code

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