THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-9091
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-9091

Loadmaster Operating System vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
A critical vulnerability in the KEMP LoadMaster Operating System (LMOS) 6.0.44 through 7.2.41.2 and Long Term Support (LTS) LMOS before 7.1.35.5 related to Session Management could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass security protections, gain system privileges, and execute elevated commands such as ls, ps, cat, etc., thereby compromising the system. Through this remote execution, in certain cases, exposure of sensitive system data such as certificates, private keys, and other information may be possible.
Affected vendor
Kemptechnologies
Affected product
Loadmaster Operating System
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2018-05-25

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 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-9091

  • Confirm whether Kemptechnologies Loadmaster Operating System is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-9091.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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