CVE-2018-12910

Publication date 29 June 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

The get_cookies function in soup-cookie-jar.c in libsoup 2.63.2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via an empty hostname.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libsoup2.4	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.62.1-1ubuntu0.1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 2.60.1-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.3

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3701-1
libsoup vulnerability
3 July 2018

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