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CVE-2018-11338

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-11338 is a critical information disclosure vulnerability affecting Intuit Lacerte 2017 and potentially older versions, where the entire customer list, including sensitive personal and financial data, is transmitted in cleartext over SMB. This allows unauthenticated attackers on the network to intercept this data via sniffing or man-in-the-middle attacks. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2017CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:intuit:lacerte:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

corporateblue.com / your-taxes-are-being-leaked
Third Party AdvisoryURL Repurposed
themikewylie.com / intuit-lacerte-vulnerability-and-data-exposure-cve-2018-11338-cve-2018-14833