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Alpine: libxapian, multiple xapian-core packages: security update to 1.4.6-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427517

Description

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)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-0499

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427517

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0499

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0499