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CVE-2018-11779

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-11779 is a critical deserialization vulnerability affecting Apache Storm versions 1.1.0 to 1.2.2 when using the storm-kafka-client or storm-kafka modules. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on the Storm UI daemon by providing specially crafted serialized data. With a CVSS score of 9.8, the vulnerability presents a severe risk of complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.1.0, <= 1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0348 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.storm:storm-kafkaFixed in: 1.2.3
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.storm:storm-kafka-clientFixed in: 1.2.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-25pc-85qf-6j69critical

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Apache Storm

Aug 1, 2019

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/3e4f704c4bd9296405a07a0290b8cbb6cbf5046e277efe6d93280a98%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E