CVE-2018-1822

Flashsystem 900 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

3.4%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

IBM FlashSystem 900 product GUI allows a specially crafted attack to bypass the authentication requirements of the system, resulting in the ability to remotely change the superuser password. This can be used by an attacker to gain administrative control or to deny service. IBM X-Force ID: 150296.

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Flashsystem 900 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)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Published

2018-10-18

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 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Ibm Flashsystem 900 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-1822.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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