THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-14496
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-14496

Fd8136 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Vivotek FD8136 devices allow remote memory corruption and remote code execution because of a stack-based buffer overflow, related to sprintf, vlocal_buff_4326, and set_getparam.cgi. NOTE: The vendor has disputed this as a vulnerability and states that the issue does not cause a web server crash or have any other affect on it's performance
Affected vendor
Vivotek
Affected product
Fd8136 Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-07-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-14496

  • Confirm whether Vivotek Fd8136 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-14496.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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