Critical

Remote Code Execution in esigate-core

  • Disclosed: 21.12.2018
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:20

esigate.org esigate version 5.2 and earlier contains a CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') vulnerability in ESI directive with user specified XSLT that can result in Remote Code Execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Use of another weakness in backend application to reflect ESI directives. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.3.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.esigate:esigate-core < 5.3 5.3

References

CVSS score 9.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-74
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.esigate:esigate-core
Disclosed
21.12.2018
Updated
11.10.2026 11:20

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-hjm9-576q-399p - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.esigate:esigate-core

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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