What is CVE-2018-7427?

CVE-2018-7427 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-10-23.

How severe is CVE-2018-7427?

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

XSS in Splunk

CVE-2018-7427

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Splunk Web in Splunk Enterprise 6.0.x before 6.0.14, 6.1.x before 6.1.13, 6.2.x before 6.2.14, 6.3.x before 6.3.10, 6.4.x before 6.4.7, and 6.5.x before 6.5.3; and Splunk Light before 6.6.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.010 (59.8th 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

Splunk
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7427?: CVE-2018-7427 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-10-23.
How severe is CVE-2018-7427?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.