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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2018-8032 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects apache axis

published 2018-08-02 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-96jq-75wh-2658 , EUVD-2018-0560

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.6%
EPSS 10.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Axis 1.x up to and including 1.4 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack in the default servlet/services.

Patch / fix

  • axis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4-28

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8032

  • axis SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.4-236.236.44.9.1
  • axis SLE Module for Basesystem 15 1.4-5.3.1
  • axis SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3 1.4-290.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3119-1SUSE-SU-2018:3121-1SUSE-SU-2018:3118-1

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-2018-8032 updated cvss 5.4

axis: cross-site scripting (XSS) attack in the default servlet/services

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 axis Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 axis, axis-manual, axis-javadoc Red Hat Software Collections rh-eclipse46-axis, rh-eclipse46-axis-manual, rh-eclipse46-axis-javadoc
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

10.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/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 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.axis:axis
<=1.4
 no fix listed
maven axis:axis
<=1.4
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Axis

Classification

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

References

Sources

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