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CVE-2018-12601

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12601 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-787) affecting sam2p 0.49.4, including its Debian Linux packages. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve further unspecified impacts over a network with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.49.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sam2p_project:sam2p:0.49.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 69th 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / pts/sam2p/issues/41
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory