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CVE-2018-12178
Buffer overflow in network stack for EDK II may allow unprivileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of…
Critical9.1EPSS 2.3%
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- intel
Description
Buffer overflow in network stack for EDK II may allow unprivileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
- Escalation of Privilege and/or Denial of Service
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (5)
- https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/dns-pack-size-check.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-bff1cbaba3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03912en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-4349-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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