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CVE-2018-0304

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-0304 is a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software, affecting numerous Cisco Firepower, Nexus, MDS, and UCS products. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit insufficient packet header validation to cause buffer overflow/overread conditions. This allows for reading sensitive memory, creating a denial of service, or executing arbitrary code as root, with a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical). While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.3\(2\)d1\(0.49\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nexus_7000_firmware:7.3\(2\)d1\(0.49\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nexus_7000_firmware:8.0\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1\(0.112\)s0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nexus_7000_firmware:8.1\(0.112\)s0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0\(0\)hsk\(0.357\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nexus_5000_firmware:7.0\(0\)hsk\(0.357\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3\(0\)d1\(0.98\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nexus_5000_firmware:7.3\(0\)d1\(0.98\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0870 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180620-fxnxos-ace
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104513
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1041169
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry