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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2017-1000188 json

mde ejs vulnerable to XSS

published 2017-11-17 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hwcf-pp87-7x6p , EUVD-2017-0347

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

nodejs ejs version older than 2.5.5 is vulnerable to a Cross-site-scripting in the ejs.renderFile() resulting in code injection

Patch / fix

  • npm ejs 2.5.5
  • ejs ejs 2.5.5
  • node-ejs Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000188

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000188 updated cvss 6.1

nodejs-ejs: Cross-site scripting via ejs.renderFile()

  • Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 fh-ngui, fh-appstore
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm ejs
<2.5.5
2.5.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.