CVE-2018-1000854: Esigate

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Esigate Esigate: up to and including 5.2

Published 2018-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.