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CVE-2018-17159: freebsd Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.8v2.0HighModified
Published 04-12-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-17159 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in freebsd. EPSS estimates a 4.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 04-12-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r340854) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5, the NFS server lacks a bounds check in the READDIRPLUS NFS request. Unprivileged remote users with access to the NFS server can cause a resource exhaustion by forcing the server to allocate an arbitrarily large memory allocation.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
4.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Freebsd1 product
  • freebsdEOLFreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p5 | < 11.2 | 11.2:p5

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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