Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18836",
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    "title": "CVE-2018-18836",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Netdata 1.10.0. JSON injection exists via the api/v1/data tqx parameter because of web_client_api_request_v1_data in web/api/web_api_v1.c.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:36:07.851189746Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/4521",
        "https://www.red4sec.com/cve/netdata_json_injection.txt",
        "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/commit/92327c9ec211bd1616315abcb255861b130b97ca",
        "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/798c141c49ee85bddc8f48f25d2cb593ec96da07/web/api/web_api_v1.c#L388",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387878,
  "published_at": "2019-06-18T16:15:10.587+00:00"
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