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CVE-2018-1165

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1165 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Joyent SmartOS release-20170803 and related Oracle Solaris/SmartOS products. The flaw, a heap-based buffer overflow in the SMB_IOC_SVCENUM IOCTL, allows an attacker with low-privileged code execution to run code in the context of the host OS. Rated 7.0 High (CVSSv3.1), exploitation requires high attack complexity due to the prerequisite of initial access. There is no known public exploit code, Metasploit module, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
20170803CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:joyent:smartos:20170803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:zfs_storage_appliance:8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.0HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 1,516 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

help.joyent.com / hc/en-us/articles/360000124928
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Third Party Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-18-158
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry