CVE-2018-12268 describes a critical command injection vulnerability in acccheck.pl version 0.2.1, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into username or password files, specifically impacting the smbclient command line. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication or user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity and ease of exploitation, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:acccheck_project:acccheck.pl:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.