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CVE-2018-12163

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12163 describes a DLL injection vulnerability within the Intel IoT Developers Kit 4.0 installer. This flaw allows an authenticated local user to potentially escalate privileges through file modification. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 4.8), it requires user interaction and local access, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit codes or Metasploit modules available, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:intel:iot_developers_kit:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 381 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

intel.com / content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00173.html
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