CVE-2018-16718: 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.

PriorityP424medium6.1CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

0.84%

53.2th percentile

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.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nih	ncbi_toolbox	2.0.7 – 2.2.26	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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