THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-8850
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-8850

E Alert Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Philips e-Alert Unit (non-medical device), Version R2.1 and prior. The software does not validate input properly, allowing an attacker to craft the input in a form that is not expected by the rest of the application. This would lead to parts of the unit receiving unintended input, which may result in altered control flow, arbitrary control of a resource, or arbitrary code execution.
Affected vendor
Philips
Affected product
E Alert 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-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2018-09-26

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 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-8850

  • Confirm whether Philips E Alert Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-8850.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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