Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting xapian-core package, versions <1.4.6-r0
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- published6 Dec 2024
- disclosed2 Jul 2018
Introduced: 2 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-0499 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.21 xapian-core to version 1.4.6-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xapian-core package and not the xapian-core package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html
- https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0499
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0499
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-0499
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3709-1/