CVE-2018-17157 is a critical integer overflow vulnerability affecting FreeBSD versions before 11.2-STABLE(r340854) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5. This flaw allows unprivileged remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution on an NFS server by sending a specially crafted NFSv4 request, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 90/100, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is currently no public exploit intelligence, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.