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CVE-2018-11793

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-11793 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apache Mesos versions prior to 1.4.x, 1.4.0-1.4.2, 1.5.0-1.5.1, 1.6.0-1.6.1, and 1.7.0. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash Mesos masters by sending a specially crafted JSON payload with deeply nested structures, leading to a stack overflow due to unbounded recursion. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:1.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0497 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.mesos:mesosFixed in: 1.4.3
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.mesos:mesosFixed in: 1.5.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.mesos:mesosFixed in: 1.6.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.mesos:mesosFixed in: 1.7.1

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-p2xq-vcm7-xjj6high

Stack Overflow in Apache Mesos

Mar 6, 2019
redhatCVE-2018-11793Moderate

mesos: stack overflow vulnerability in parser

Mar 4, 2019

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/9be975c53e5ad612c7e0af39f5b88837fbfbc32108e587d3d8499844%40%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E
securityfocus.com / bid/107281
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry