CVE-2018-0314 is a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) component of Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software, affecting numerous Cisco Firepower, MDS, Nexus, and UCS product lines. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to insufficient validation of CFS packet headers, leading to a buffer overflow. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness.
| 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\(0.357\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.1\(0.2\)s0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nexus_5000_firmware:8.1\(0.2\)s0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.