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CVE-2018-1000854

CRITICAL

esigate.org esigate version 5.2 and earlier contains a CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') vulnerability in ESI directive with user specified XSLT that can result in Remote Code Execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Use of another weakness in backend application to reflect ESI directives. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.3.

Published: Dec 20, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-74

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (1)

Vendor Product Version
esigate esigate *

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-hjm9-576q-399p

Remote Code Execution in esigate-core

maven org.esigate:esigate-core < 5.3 Fixed: 5.3

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 3.16%

Top 13% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.1 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub