CVE-2018-17031

medium

Description

In Gogs 0.11.53, an attacker can use a crafted .eml file to trigger MIME type sniffing, which leads to XSS, as demonstrated by Internet Explorer, because an "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" header is not sent.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-px5r-fqj6-r2f8

https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/5397

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-4849

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-14

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N