CVE-2018-0499

Summary

CVE	CVE-2018-0499
State	PUBLIC
Assigner	[email protected]
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2018-07-02 12:29:00 UTC
Updated	2018-08-28 17:46:00 UTC
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().

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Operating System	Canonical	Ubuntu Linux	17.10	All	All	All
Operating System	Canonical	Ubuntu Linux	18.04	All	All	All
Operating System	Canonical	Ubuntu Linux	17.10	All	All	All
Operating System	Canonical	Ubuntu Linux	18.04	All	All	All
Application	Xapian	Xapian-core	All	All	All	All
Application	Xapian	Xapian-core	All	All	All	All

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
USN-3709-1: Xapian-core vulnerability \| Ubuntu security notices	UBUNTU	usn.ubuntu.com	Third Party Advisory
Incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet() (CVE-2018-0499)	CONFIRM	lists.xapian.org	Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
SecurityFixes/2018-07-02 – Xapian	CONFIRM	trac.xapian.org	Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

501374 Alpine Linux Security Update for xapian-core