What is CVE-2018-6889?

CVE-2018-6889 is a high-severity vulnerability in Typesettercms Typesetter, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-02-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-6889?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

RCE in Typesettercms Typesetter

CVE-2018-6889

An issue was discovered in Typesetter 5.1. It suffers from a Host header injection vulnerability, Using this attack, a malicious user can poison the web cache or perform advanced password reset attacks or even trigger arbitrary user re-dir…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.068 (93.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Typesettercms Typesetter — versions 5.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-6889?: CVE-2018-6889 is a high-severity vulnerability in Typesettercms Typesetter, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-02-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-6889?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.