CVE-2018-5551

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

1.61% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 75.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

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

2018-03-19 15:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 05:40Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-01-12

Assigning CNA

rapid7

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Critical (CVSS 9.0)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-798Use of Hard-coded CredentialsBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

f18ed764be23f07f9f639e9d5e09008b85589edb6b5562cc4aabb7c5689f60d1

• blog.rapid7.comhttps://blog.rapid7.com/2018/03/14/r7-2018-01-cve-2018-5551-cve-2018-5552-docutrac-office-therapy-installer-hard-coded-credentials-and-cryptographic-salt/x_refsource_MISC