CVE-2018-12544
In version from 3.5.Beta1 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the OpenAPI XML type validator creates XML parsers without taking appropriate…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In version from 3.5.Beta1 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the OpenAPI XML type validator creates XML parsers without taking appropriate defense against XML attacks. This mechanism is exclusively when the developer uses the Eclipse Vert.x OpenAPI XML type validator to validate a provided schema.
Timeline
ID reserved
By eclipse
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
The Eclipse Foundation · Eclipse Vert.x
- affected 3.5.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – ≤ 3.5.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenio.vertx:vertx-coreGHSA-qh3m-qw6v-qvhg (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- RHSA-2018:2946 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-web/issues/1021 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539568 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [pulsar-commits] 20201215 [GitHub] [pulsar] yanshuchong opened a new issue #8967: CVSS issue list (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0664 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qh3m-qw6v-qvhg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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