What is CVE-2019-10178?

CVE-2019-10178 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtagpki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2020-03-18.

How severe is CVE-2019-10178?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

XSS in Dogtagpki

CVE-2019-10178

It was found that the Token Processing Service (TPS) did not properly sanitize the Token IDs from the "Activity" page, enabling a Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could trick an authenticated victim into creating a specially crafted activity, which would execute arbitrary JavaScript code when viewed in a browser. All versions of pki-core are believed to be vulnerable.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-03-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-31.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 62nd percentile — 62.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Dogtagpki
The Pki-Core Project — versions all versions

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10178?: CVE-2019-10178 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtagpki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2020-03-18.
How severe is CVE-2019-10178?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.