CVE-2018-8784

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

7.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 93.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Moderate. 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

2018-11-29 17:00Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-17 01:55Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-03-19

Assigning CNA

checkpoint

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

37e3aee39f1630fc5464e01b72be7518bd560c3a541303861fed3d1f98b339b0

• www.securityfocus.com106938http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3845-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• research.checkpoint.comhttps://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/17c363a5162fd4dc77b1df54e48d7bd9bf6b3be7x_refsource_CONFIRM