CVE-2018-16853

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.08% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 87.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2018-11-28 14:00Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 10:32Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-09-11

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.5)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

4eb59810153de0e73b325c4e1cec5ec8610b9b631e2b6442044f8c0e72303341

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16853x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.samba.orghttps://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16853.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com106026http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106026vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202003-52https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO