CVE-2018-11529

EPSS 40.6%

Vexday Risk Score

50Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 40.6%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch referenciado

Lifecycle

24 May 2018Metasploit module available

11 Jul 2018Published on NVD

16 Oct 2018Public PoC

Weaponization speed

96 daysto first PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.x is prone to a use after free vulnerability which an attacker can leverage to execute arbitrary code via crafted MKV files. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial of service conditions.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45626unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45626/unverified

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References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jul/28 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4251 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45626/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041311