CVE-2005-3757

Mini Search Appliance vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

41.3%

EPSS pct

99th

Exploited

No known

The Saxon XSLT parser in Google Mini Search Appliance, and possibly Google Search Appliance, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code via dangerous Java class methods in select attribute of xsl:value-of tags in XSLT style sheets, such as (1) system-property, (2) sys:getProperty, and (3) run:exec.

Affected vendor

Google

Affected product

Mini Search Appliance

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-11-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 41.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

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