What is CVE-2018-1000998?

CVE-2018-1000998 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd Cvsweb, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-02-04.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000998?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Freebsd Cvsweb

CVE-2018-1000998

FreeBSD CVSweb version 2.x contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in all pages that can result in limited impact--CVSweb is anonymous & read-only. It might impact other sites on same domain. This attack appears to be exploitable via victim must load specially crafted url. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 3.x.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (55.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Freebsd Cvsweb
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000998?: CVE-2018-1000998 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd Cvsweb, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-02-04.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000998?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.