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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2018-17572 json

InfluxDB Reflected Cross-site Scripting

published 2020-03-02 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w55x-q3gv-px85 , EUVD-2022-5501

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

InfluxDB 0.9.5 has Reflected XSS in the Write Data module.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/influxdata/influxdb 0.9.6
  • influxdb Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.6.1+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17572

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-2018-17572 updated cvss 4.8

influxdb: Reflected cross-site-scripting in the Write Data module

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1 servicemesh-prometheus Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-prometheus, openshift4/ose-ovn-kubernetes
    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

0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gist.github.com https://gist.github.com/Raghavrao29/1cb84f1f2d8ce993fd7b2d1366d35f48 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/influxdata/influxdb
<0.9.6
0.9.6

Classification

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

References

Sources

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