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CVE-2017-15918

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15918 describes a critical vulnerability in ignitum sera 1.2, where the user's login password is stored in plain text within their home directory. This flaw allows for trivial local privilege escalation and exposes system keychains to local attackers, as indicated by its CVSS score of 7.8 (High) and FAUCET Risk Score of 89/100. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, a public exploit (EDB-43221) exists, demonstrating its exploitability. Despite the high severity and available exploit, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ignitum:sera:1.2:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ignitum:sera:1.2:*:*:*:*:mac_os_x:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-43221 · Dec 6, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0115 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 16,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

m4.rkw.io / blog/cve201715918-sera-12-local-root-privesc-and-password-disclosure.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/43221
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry