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CVE-2018-16718

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An XSS vulnerability exists in wwwblast.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox via a crafted -z1 argument.

Affected products

• NIH Ncbi Toolbox: from 2.0.7 through 2.2.26

References

• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16718.md
• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16718.md

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