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CVE-2018-18940

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

servlet/SnoopServlet (a servlet installed by default) in Netscape Enterprise 3.63 has reflected XSS via an arbitrary parameter=[XSS] in the query string. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to supply malicious HTML or JavaScript code to a vulnerable web application, which is then reflected back to the victim and executed by the web browser. NOTE: this product is discontinued.

Affected products

• Netscape Enterprise Server: 3.63

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150262/Netscape-Enterprise-3.63-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/31
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150262/Netscape-Enterprise-3.63-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/31

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