A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before
    1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet(). (CVE-2018-0499)

Update to 1.4.6, Security fix for CVE-2018-0499, fix for notmuch (Email indexer)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3709-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Xapian-core incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this     to execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
427517	Alpine: libxapian, multiple xapian-core packages: security update to 1.4.6-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
427517	Alpine: libxapian, multiple xapian-core packages: security update to 1.4.6-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
412214	SCA: security update for xapian-core (GHSA-7qw4-w7hf-22q3)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
412214	SCA: security update for xapian-core (GHSA-7qw4-w7hf-22q3)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
120369	Fedora 28 : xapian-bindings / xapian-core (2018-3ecacade34)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
111241	Fedora 27 : xapian-bindings / xapian-core (2018-62394ac295)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
111006	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Xapian-core vulnerability (USN-3709-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2018-0499

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