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01 Record

CVE-2018-5739

Failure to release memory may exhaust system resources

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: isc
CNA base score6.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

02 Description

Failure to release memory may exhaust system resources

03 Exploitation and scoring

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
1.89% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 79.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (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:U/C:N/I:N/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.

04 Metadata

Published
2019-01-16 20:00Z7 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-17 02:11Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2018-01-17
Assigning CNA
isc
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.5)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-772Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
15fa325842ce902c0e3ec86640d7d0cf1de23ebe18302343b1ca182241ed5d75

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
ISCKea DHCPKea DHCP 1.4.0—

06 References

07 Remediation

Upgrade to Kea 1.4.0-P1 or higher, available via https://www.isc.org/downloads.