MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2005-3758

Mini Search Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
19.1%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Mini Search Appliance, and possibly Google Search Appliance, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript, and possibly other web script or HTML, via a proxystylesheet variable that contains a malicious XSLT style sheet.
Affected vendor
Google
Affected product
Mini Search Appliance
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2005-11-22

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 19.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-3758

  • Confirm whether Google Mini Search Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-3758.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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