CVE-2018-19439

Secure Global Desktop vulnerability

CVSS

6.1

EPSS

20.5%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

XSS exists in the Administration Console in Oracle Secure Global Desktop 4.4 20080807152602 (but was fixed in later versions including 5.4). helpwindow.jsp has reflected XSS via all parameters, as demonstrated by the sgdadmin/faces/com_sun_web_ui/help/helpwindow.jsp windowTitle parameter.

Affected vendor

Oracle

Affected product

Secure Global Desktop

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2018-12-13

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 20.5% 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-2018-19439

Confirm whether Oracle Secure Global Desktop is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-19439.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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