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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1000854

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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31 Oct 2026, 10:00 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-1000854

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Dec 2018, 17:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2018-1000854
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:40.653972386Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2018-12-20T17:29:00.267+00:00"
}