CVE-2018-0312 is a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software, affecting numerous Cisco Firepower, MDS, Nexus, and UCS products. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit insufficient packet header validation to cause a buffer overflow. This allows for arbitrary code execution or a denial of service (DoS) condition. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the attack complexity is low, requiring no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.
| 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\(0.357\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
r211CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:firepower_9000_firmware:r211:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.