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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.