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medium 6.5

CVE-2018-0486 json

Shibboleth XMLTooling-C before 1.6.3, as used in Shibboleth Service Provider before 2.6.0 on Windows and other products, mishandles digital…

published 2018-01-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-1309

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Shibboleth XMLTooling-C before 1.6.3, as used in Shibboleth Service Provider before 2.6.0 on Windows and other products, mishandles digital signatures of user attribute data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or conduct impersonation attacks via a crafted DTD.

Patch / fix

  • shibboleth xmltooling-c 1.6.3
  • xmltooling Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0486

  • xmltooling Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.5.3-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1
  • xmltooling Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.5.6-2ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0486

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xmltooling SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 1.5.6-3.6.1
  • xmltooling SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 1.5.6-3.3.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0720-1SUSE-SU-2018:0140-1

  • xmltooling openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.2.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11523-1

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-2018-0486 updated cvss 8.7

xmltooling: impersonation attack and sensitive information disclosure in the Service Provider via crafted DTD

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 XMLTooling XMLTooling
    +1 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 xmltooling xmltooling
    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

1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a XMLTooling-C before 1.6.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

References

Sources

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