CVE-2018-16718

low-risk
Published 2019-05-02

An XSS vulnerability exists in wwwblast.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox via a crafted -z1 argument.

Do I need to act?

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0.24% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.1/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Nih

References (2)

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16718.md
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16718.md
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low-risk
Severity 23/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal