CVE-2018-8974

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention MicrobeTRACE 0.1.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to code injection via a crafted CSV file with an initial 'Source<script type="text/javascript" src=' line. Fix released on 2018-03-28.

Affected products

Cdc Microbetrace: 0.1.11

References

https://github.com/CDCgov/MicrobeTRACE/releases/tag/v0.1.11
https://github.com/CDCgov/MicrobeTrace/commit/3142b76c082bd83e1506c9840fbe0b6da382e682
https://github.com/wshepherd0010/advisories/blob/master/CVE-2018-8974.md
https://github.com/CDCgov/MicrobeTRACE/releases/tag/v0.1.11
https://github.com/CDCgov/MicrobeTrace/commit/3142b76c082bd83e1506c9840fbe0b6da382e682
https://github.com/wshepherd0010/advisories/blob/master/CVE-2018-8974.md

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