CVE-2018-15181

4g Hotspot M2s Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

5.3%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

JioFi 4G Hotspot M2S devices allow attackers to cause a denial of service (secure configuration outage) via an XSS payload in the SSID name and Security Key fields.

Affected vendor

Jio

Affected product

4g Hotspot M2s Firmware

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2018-08-09

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 5.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-15181

Confirm whether Jio 4g Hotspot M2s Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-15181.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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