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CVE-2018-14055

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14055 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting ZNC versions prior to 1.7.1-rc1, including Debian distributions. It allows a non-admin user to escalate privileges and inject malicious configurations into znc.conf due to improper validation of network input. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a low attack complexity and high integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:znc:znc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 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 0.0 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 / znc/znc/commit/a7bfbd93812950b7444841431e8e297e62cb524e
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / znc/znc/commit/d22fef8620cdd87490754f607e7153979731c69d
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201807-03
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4252
Third Party Advisory