ADVISORIES

• CVE-2018-0499 (NVD)
• GHSA-7qw4-w7hf-22q3
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

xapian-core

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 6.1 (Medium)

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().

RELATED

• https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3709-1/