CVE-2018-1000516

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    CVE-2018-1000516

    Published: 26 Jun 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The Galaxy Project Galaxy version v14.10 contains a CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability in Many templates used in the Galaxy server did not properly sanitize user's input, which would allow for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. In this form of attack, a malicious person can create a URL which, when opened by a Galaxy user or administrator, would allow the malicious user to execute arbitrary Javascript. that can result in Arbitrary JavaScript code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must interact with component on page witch contains injected JavaScript code.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v14.10.1, v15.01.

    References: https://galaxyproject.org/archive/dev-news-briefs/2015-01-13/#security

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 1c9aded3b93068f5e364b66434747b63afe2a0e5
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    14.10

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High